XIME-P 2006: Call for Participation and Demonstrations

              Call for Participation and Demonstrations

                        X I M E - P   2 0 0 6
                   3rd International Workshop on
        XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives

                           June 30, 2006
        Collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2006, Chicago, USA
                      Sponsored by ACM SIGMOD

                         Industrial Sponsors
                   BEA  |  IBM  |  Oracle  |  X-Hive
                
                      http://www.ximep-2006.org/

Please join us for XIME-P 2006, the third workshop in the XIME-P series, dedicated to research and industrial efforts on the implementation, utilization, and overall prospects of XQuery.

XQuery development is happening on the verge of databases, document processing, and programming languages. This ''heterogeneity'' in contributions and attendees has been a source of lively debate and an interesting technical program for previous XIME-P editions. In this spirit, XIME-P 2006 features a mixture of seven talks, discussions, demoing, and a concluding panel. A keynote address by Don Chamberlin (IBM Almaden) - a lead of the W3C XQuery Working Group - will open the day.

Last but not least, all odds are that after 8 years of work XQuery will become a standard at around the time of SIGMOD 2006, making 2006 a landmark year for XQuery as well as XIME-P.

XIME-P 2006 is held in the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, i.e., the SIGMOD 2006 conference hotel, all-day on Friday, June 30, 2006.

• ''Caffeine and Code'': Informal Call for Demonstrations

If you are the architect of an XQuery implementation or if you build interesting applications with an XQuery core, XIME-P 2006 is your ideal opportunity for unlimited bragging about and discussion of your system. The venue will be stuffed with interested peers.

The ''Caffeine and Code'' joint coffee and demonstration break (90 min) of XIME-P 2006 calls for your system to be demoed. This will be informal and open and you are sincerely invited to drop us a note at

                         ximep-2006_at_ximep-2006.org

or to contact the workshop chairs (Mike Carey, Torsten Grust) directly. (Please include a brief description of your system and the scope of your demo.)

• Program (Friday, June 30)

   08:30--09:00     On-site Registration
   09:00--10:00     Welcome
                    Invited Talk by Don Chamberlin (IBM Almaden):
                    "XQuery: Where Do We Go From Here?"
   10:00--10:30     Coffee break
   10:30--12:00     Session 1: XQuery Implementation
                    A Fully Pipelined XQuery Processor
                      (Leonidas Fegaras, Ranjan Dash, YingHui Wang)
                    Template Folding for XPath
                      (Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte)
                    Building a Native XML-DBMS as a Term Project
                    in a Course
                      (Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu, 
                      Stefanie Scherzinger)
   12:00--01:30     Lunch break
   01:30--02:30     Session 2: Extensions to XQuery
                    Positional Grouping in XQuery 
                      (Michael Kay)
                    Programming with XQuery
                      (Don Chamberlin, Mike Carey, Dana Florescu, 
                      Donald Kossmann, Jonathan Robie)
   02:30--04:00     "Caffeine and Code"
                    Joint Coffee and Demonstration break. 
                    Informal demonstrations of XQuery implementations 
                    and applications. Unlimited bragging and 
                    discussion opportunity.
   04:00--05:00     Session 3: XQuery and Annotated XML
                    Efficient XQuery Support for Stand-Off Annotation  
                      (Wouter Alink, Raoul Bhoedjang, 
                      Arjen de Vries, Peter Boncz)
                    Multi-hierarchical XQuery for Document-Centric XML 
                      (Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar)
   05:00--06:00     Panel (topic tba)

• Registration

XIME-P 2006 is held in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD 2006. You can register for the workshop via the SIGMOD registration process (online or offline). Please visit

          http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/sigmod-pods06/

Registration rates are shown below. These rates are unaffected by the SIGMOD 2006 early bird registration deadline (May 25). Note that you can upgrade an existing SIGMOD 2006 registration to include XIME-P 2006. Workshop-only registration is possible as well.

        ACM Member         $80
        Non-Member         $120
        Student            $55

Workshop advance registration ends June 19, 2006. After June 19, you can register on-site.

• XIME-P 2006 Co-Chairs
  • Mike Carey - Torsten Grust

    BEA Systems Inc.              Technische Universitaet Muenchen
    San Jose, CA, USA             Munich, Germany
    mcarey_at_bea.com                grust_at_in.tum.de

• XIME-P 2006 Program Committee
  • Kevin Beyer (IBM Research, USA)
  • Angela Bonifati (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
  • Vinayak Borkar (BEA Systems, USA)
  • Daniela Florescu (Oracle, USA)
  • Jan Hidders (U Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Carl-Christian Kanne (U Mannheim, Germany)
  • Michael Kay (Saxonica, UK)
  • Maurice van Keulen (U Twente, Netherlands)
  • Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France)
  • Dan Olteanu (U Saarland, Germany)
  • Martin Probst (X-Hive, Netherlands)
  • Jonathan Robie (DataDirect Technologies, USA)
  • Jai Shanmugasundaram (Cornell U, USA)
  • Jerome Simeon (IBM Research, USA)
  • Dan Suciu (U of Washington, USA)
  • Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh, UK)