FRIDAY 17 SEPT
Location: Falcon 

9:00 - 10:30	
Keynote - Distributed XML Query Processing
Session Chair: Jeffrey Xu Yu
Speaker: Tamer Ozsu (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30	
Research Session 1: XML Query Processing
Session Chair: Toshiyuki Amagasa

Approximate Joins for XML Using g-String 
Fei Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Hongzhi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Cheng Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Liang Hao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 

Linear F&B-index Construction for Trees 
Nils Grimsmo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 
Truls Amundsen Bjorklund, Norwegian University of Science and 
Technology, Norway 
Magnus Lie Hetland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway 

Extending the Tractability Results on XPath Satisfiability with
Sibling Axes  
Yasunori Ishihara, Osaka University, Japan 
Shogo Shimizu, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan 
Toru Fujiwara, Osaka University, Japan 

Extending XQuery With A Pattern Matching Facility 
Peter Fischer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Aayush Garg, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 


Lunch @ Kiwi Lounge (Level 2)

14:00 - 15:30
Research Session 2: XML Update and Applications
Session Chair: Flavio Ferrarotti 

A Schema-Based Translation of XQuery Updates 
Leonidas Fegaras, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 

EBSL: Supporting Deleted Node Label Reuse in XML 
Martin F. O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland 
Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland 

Lessons Learned from DB2 pureXML Applications: A Practitioner's 
Perspective
Matthias Nicola, IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA

Searchable Compression of Office Documents by XML Schema 
Subtraction 
Stefan Bvttcher, University of Paderborn, Germany 
Rita Hartel, University of Paderborn, Germany 
Christian Messinger, University of Paderborn, Germany

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30
Research Session 3: XML Modelling
Session Chair: Mong Li Lee

Fast Detection of Functional Dependencies in XML Data 
Hang Shi, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan 

TP+Output: modeling complex output information in XML twig pattern 
query 
Huayu Wu, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
TokWang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand 

Promoting the Semantic Capability of XML Keys 
Flavio Ferrarotti, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany 
Sebastian Link, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Jing Wang, Massey University, New Zealand