• GOALS

• PROGRAM

• PAPERS

• PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

To provide a forum for researchers and practitioners on the interactions between database technology and database theory and the World Wide Web. This workshop is the second of a new series. The first WebDB workshop was held in Valencia, Spain in conjunction with the EDBT'98 conference. It was a great success both by the quality of its papers and its number of attendees. The proceedings were published by Springer Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This second issue of WebDB was as successful. We received 55 submissions of excellent quality out of which, due to time limitation, we accepted only 16.

• One-to-One Personalization of Data-Intensive Web Sites
  (Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Andrea Maurino and Stefano Paraboschi)
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• Run-time management of data intensive web sites
  (Daniela Florescu, Alon Levy, Dan Suciu and Khaled Yagoub)
• The (short) Araneus Guide to Web-Site Development
  (Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Merialdo, Paolo Atzeni, Valter Crescenzi)
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• Declarative Web Site Management with Tiramisu
  (Corin Anderson, Alon Levy and Dan Weld)
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• From Semistructured Data to XML: Migrating the Lore Data Model and Query Language
  (Roy Goldman, Jason McHugh and Jennifer Widom)
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• Web Ecology: Recycling HTML pages as XML documents using W4F
  (Arnaud Sahuguet and Fabien Azavant)
• SAL: An algebra for semistructured data and XML
  (Catriel Beeri and Yariv Tzaban)
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• EquiX Easy Querying in XML Databases
  (Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Yakov Kogan, Werner Nutt, Yehoshua Sagiv and Alexander Serebrenik)
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• Adapter Generation for Extracting and Querying Data from Web
  (Kai-Uwe Sattler and Michael Hoeding)
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• Some practical observations on integration of Web information
  (William W. Cohen)
• Horizontal Query Optimization on Ordered Semistructured Data
  (Hartmut Liefke)
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• Ready for Prime Time - Pre-Generation of Web Pages in TIScover (B. Pr÷ll, W. Retschitzegger, H. Sighart and H. Starck)

• Query Answering Using Views for Data Integration over the Web
  ( D. Calvanese, G. De Giacomo, M. Lenzerini and M. Vardi)
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• On the Materialization of WebViews
  (Alexandros Labrinidis and Nick Roussopoulos)
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• A Framework for Navigation-Driven Lazy Mediators
  (Bertram Ludaescher, Yannis Papakonstantinou and Pavel Velikhov)
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• Exploiting geographical location information of web pages
  (Orkut Buyukkokten, Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina, Luis Gravano and Narayanan Shivakumar)
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Moderated by Peter Buneman, the panel addressed the problem of storing large bodies of XML. The participants were:

• George Feinberg (ODI)
• Daniela Florescu (INRIA)
• Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (Oracle)
• Roy Goldman (Stanford University)
• Michael Rys (Microsoft)
• Dan Suciu (AT&T)

1.

We don't need to do this. XML is a transport mechanism, not a data model. All we need to do is generate and digest structured XML and use conventional database systems for storage.

2.

XML can be cleanly represented in an OODBMS and the DOM API (the only universally accepted API for XML) is easy to implement. Therefore XML will be the savior of object-oriented database technology.

3.

We can adapt relational database technology to handle XML efficiently.

4.

We need new technology for this purpose.

• Tiziana Catarci (Universita' di Roma 1, Italy);
• Sophie Cluet, co-chair (INRIA, France);
• Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA);
• Daniela Florescu (INRIA, France);
• Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto, Canada);
• Tova Milo, co-chair (Tel-Aviv University, Israel);
• Jennifer Widom (Stanford University, USA);

• Sophie Cluet (INRIA, France);
• Tova Milo (Tel-Aviv University, Israel);

ORGANIZATION ASSISTANT

• Danny Moreau (INRIA, France);