CDB 1998: Seattle, WA, USA

In conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS '98

The objective of this informal workshop is to bring together researchers to share and explore their views on constraint database technology and its applications. The main focus of the workshop will be to communicate and discuss recent results of research into Constraint Databases and to identify future research directions.

Location: Seattle Convention Center. Fidalgo Room

PROGRAM

Morning Sessions 1

• Dirk Van Gucht: Geometric Query Languages and their Properties.
• Michael Benedikt: Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages.

Morning Session 2

• Victor Vianu: Topological Queries in Spatial Databases.
• Bart Kuijpers: First-Order Languages Expressing Constructable Spatial Database Queries.

Afternoon Session 1

• Jean-Louis Lassez: Convex Hull Algorithms through Theorem Proving.
• Stéphane Grumbach: On the Optimization of Constraint Database Queries.

Afternoon Session 2

• Sridhar Ramaswamy: Implementation Issues in Constraint Databases.
• Luc Segoufin: On the Implementation of a Constraint Database System: The Choices of DEDALE.

Organizing Committee