Re: Final CFP: XML Database Symposium (XSym03) _at_ VLDB 2003

"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_pandora.be> wrote in message news:8lv3b.6084$HV.28701_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Or what about the excellent paper on normal-forms for XML by
> Marcelo Arenas and Leonid Libkin that got the best paper award at
> SIGMOD/PODS?
As an outsider I wonder what they (i.e. academy) award criteria are. There are so many "interdiscipline" papers! The process goes usually like this: "Look ma, wavelets are really cool. What if we apply them to the database optimization?" Got a paper, got award.

In the Information Dependencies case, the really insightful and much more well written paper was by Dalkilic&Roberson ([8]). Much less condenced material, better examples, much better notation -- overall more pleasure to read. Now, application of information dependency to XML normalization may be indeed a revolutionary idea (I honestly don't know), but my suspicion is that the motivation factor was quite similar: "Look, XML really hot, and Information dependencies are cool. What if we marry them?" Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 01:23:49 CEST