Joint Summer School on Extending DataBase Technology
by Serge Abiteboul and Nourredine Mouaddib
The EDBT (Extending Data Base Technology) school took place at La Baule-les-Pins, France from 16 to 21 May 1999. The school, now a major and well-established event, was the fifth of a series of a European bi-yearly summer school in databases. Lectures were given by leading researchers of the international database community.
The school was attended by 61 participants. Together with the teachers and the organizers this lead to 75 persons. It should be noted that many teachers (as asked) attended most of the school. More than half were PhD students and among the others the wide majority were rather young researchers. The courses up to the last one were fully attended. It is our impression that the students enjoyed the school and learnt a lot. Indeed, the PhD students requested an extra session so they would have more time to discuss the future of the field.
Programme
- Serge Abiteboul, INRIA: Electronic Commerce and Databases
- Georges Gardarin, Université de Versailles: Distributed Database Techniques: Architectures and Evolutions
- Gerti Kappel, University Johannes Kepler, Linz: UML at Work - Object-Oriented Software Development from Analysis to Implementation
- Mohamed Quafafou, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes: Knowledge Discovery
- Guido Moerkotte, University of Karlsruhe: Building Query Compilers
- C. Mohan, IBM, Almaden: Workflow Management in the Internet Age \
- Vassilis Christophides, FORTH: System Infrastructure for Digital Libraries: A Survey and Outlook
- Michel Scholl, Centre National des Arts et Metiers, Paris: Spatio-temporal Databases
- Dennis Shasha, New York University: Time Series in Finance: the Array Database Approach
- Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano: the Asilomar report and discussion on the new directions of the field; the students requested the addition of a session to discuss the future of the field. They lead the discussion during that session. They are planning an answer to the Asilomar report in a report tentatively called the La Baule Report.
- Four PhD students sessions of short presentations of their works.
Please contact:
Serge Abiteboul - INRIA
Tel: +33 1 39 63 55 37
E-mail: Serge.Abiteboul@inria.fr