Sunday January 6th, 2013

4pm Registration Opens (Asilomar Check-in)

6pm Dinner (Seascape Restaurant)

7pm Informal Evening Get-together (Chapel)

Monday January 7th, 2013

7:30am Breakfast

8:30am-10:15am ANALYTICS (Chair: Carlo Curino)

QPPT: Query Processing on Prefix Trees [PDF]

Thomas Kissinger (TU Dresden); Benjamin Schlegel (TU Dresden); Dirk Habich (TU Dresden); Wolfgang Lehner (TU Dresden)

Toward Progress Indicators on Steroids for Big Data Systems [PDF]

Jiexing Li (University of Wisconsin); Rimma Nehme (Microsoft); Jeff Naughton (University of Wisconsin)

Differential Dataflow [PDF]

Frank McSherry (Microsoft Research); Derek Murray (Microsoft Research); Rebecca Isaacs (Microsoft Research); Michael Isard (Microsoft Research)

MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System [PDF]

Tim Kraska (Brown University); Ameet Talwalkar (UC Berkeley); John Duchi (UC Berkeley); Rean Griffith (VMware); Michael Franklin (UC Berkeley); Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)

10:15am-10:45am Coffee Break

10:45am-12:00pm MULTI-TENANCY (Chair: Ryan Johnson)

SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service [PDF]

Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft Research); Sudipto Das (Microsoft Research); Manoj Syamala (Microsoft Research); Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft Research); Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research)

Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis [PDF]

Daniel Deutch (Ben Gurion University); Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania); Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University); Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania)

How to Fit when No One Size Fits [PDF]

Harold Lim (Duke University); Yuzhang Han (Duke University); Shivnath Babu (Duke University)

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch

1:15pm-3:00pm TRANSACTIONS and SECURITY (Chair: Alan Fekete)

LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Log Processing [PDF]

Zhao Cao (HP Labs China); Shimin Chen (HP Labs China); Feifei Li (University of Utah); Min Wang (HP Labs China); Xiaoyang Sean Wang (Fudan University)

Executing Long-Running Transactions in Synchronization-Free Main Memory Database Systems [PDF]

Henrik Muehe (TU Munich); Alfons Kemper (TU Munich); Thomas Neumann (TU Munich)

Message Futures: Fast Commitment of Transactions in Multi-datacenter Environments [PDF]

Faisal Nawab (UCSB); Divyakant Agrawal (UCSB); Amr El Abbadi (UCSB)

Orthogonal Security with Cipherbase [PDF]

Arvind Arasu (Microsoft Research); Spyros Blanas (UW-Madison); Ken Eguro (Microsoft Research); Raghav Kaushik (Microsoft Research); Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich); Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft Research); Ramaratnam Venkatesan (Microsoft Research)

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee Break

3:30pm-5:15pm SOCIAL NETS and GRAPHS (Chair: Michael Franklin)

Scalable Social Coordination with Group Constraints using Enmeshed Queries [PDF]

Jianjun Chen (Google Inc); Ashwin Machanavajjhala (Duke University); George Varghese (Microsoft Research and UCSD)

BG: A Benchmark to Evaluate Interactive Social Networking Actions [PDF]

Sumita Barahmand (USC); Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USC)

Asynchronous Large-Scale Graph Processing Made Easy [PDF]

Guozhang Wang (Cornell University); Wenlei Xie (Cornell University); Alan Demers (Cornell University); Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)

VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework [PDF]

Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University); Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University); Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University)

6:00pm-7:00pm Dinner

7:15pm Gong Show (Chair: Yanlei Diao)

We Don't Need No Stinking Databases in Genomics

George Varghese (Microsoft Research & UCSD)

Understanding the Structure of Ranked Data [Slides]

Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)

Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Enable Secure Database as a Service [Slides]

Murali Mani (University of Michigan, Flint)

Solid State Storage & DBMS [Slides]

Manos Athanassoulis (EPFL)

Unlocking Cool in Databases (and CS in general) [Slides]

Rimma Nehme (Microsoft Gray Systems Lab)

A Case for Thread Migration [Slides]

Pinar Tozun (EPFL)

Keyboards, R.I.P. [Slides]

Arnab Nandi (The Ohio State University)

Big Data Pipelines

Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)

Pick-A-Crowd: Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what to do [Slides]

Gianluca Demartini (University of Fribourg)

Say No! No! and No! [Video]

Jens Dittrich (Saarland University)

A Science Fiction Talk

Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

HAT, not CAP: Highly Available Transactions for Everybody

Peter Bailis (UC Berkeley)

Big Data Complex Data [Slides]

Mike Caruso

A Probabilistic Knowledge Base System [Slides]

Daisy Zhe Wang (University of Florida)

We are Under Attack; by the least publishable unit [Slides]

Mike Stonebraker (MIT)

Quantcast File System (QFS)

Hojjat Jafarpour (Quantcast)

Transactional Middleware Reconsidered [Slides]

Philip Bernstein (Microsoft)

Beating State-of-the-art By -10000% [Slides]

Reynold Xin (UC Berkeley)

Managing Personal Goal Information [Slides]

Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)

Cache Augmented SQL (CASQL) Systems [Slides]

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California)

Data Publishing and Sharing using Fusion Tables

Alon Halevy (Google)

Tuesday January 8th, 2013

7:30am Breakfast

8:30am-9:30am Keynote

Arthur W. Toga, UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging

The Informatics of Large Multisite Brain Mapping Projects

9:30am-10:00am Coffee Break

10:00am-11:45am LEAN and GREEN DBs (Chair: Alfons Kemper)

Green Databases Through Integration of Renewable Energy [PDF]

Cheng Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Sun Yat-sen University); Bingsheng He (Nanyang Technological University); Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University); Changbing Chen (Nanyang Technological University); Yubao Liu (Sun Yat-sen University)

How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy [PDF]

Alekh Jindal (Saarland University); Felix Schuhknecht (Saarland University); Jens Dittrich (Saarland University); Karen Khachatryan (Saarland University); Alexander Bunte (Saarland University)

StatusQuo: Making Familiar Abstractions Perform Using Program Analysis [PDF]

Alvin Cheung (MIT); Owen Arden (Cornell University); Sam Madden (MIT); Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT); Andrew Myers (Cornell University)

NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling [PDF]

Yinan Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Ippokratis Pandis (IBM Almaden Research Center); Rene Mueller (IBM Almaden Research Cente); Vijayshankar Raman (IBM Almaden Research Center); Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden Research Center)

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm-3:15pm Free Time

3:15pm-4:15pm Outrageous Ideas and Vision I: Query Processing I (Chair: Hank Korth)

Understanding Local Structure in Ranked Datasets [PDF]

Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University); Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, LIG, France); Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania); Marie Jacob (University of Pennsylvania); Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering [PDF]

Michael Anderson (University of Michigan); Dolan Antenucci (University of Michigan); Victor Bittorf (University of Wisconsin); Matthew Burgess (University of Michigan); Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan); Arun Kumar (University of Wisconsin); Feng Niu (University of Wisconsin); Yongjoo Park (University of Michigan); Christopher Re (University of Wisconsin); Ce Zhang (University of Wisconsin)

Mirror mirror on the wall, which query's fairest of them all? [PDF]

Georgia Koutrika (HP Labs); Alkis Simitsis (HP Labs)

A Social Network Database that Learns How to Answer Queries [PDF]

Sara Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Lior Ebel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Benny Kimelfeld (IBM Almaden Research Center)

4:15pm-4:30pm Coffee Break

4:30pm-6:00pm Outrageous Ideas and Vision II: Query Processing II (Chair: Guy Lohman)

DBSeer: Resource and Performance Prediction for Building a Next Generation Database Cloud [PDF]

Barzan Mozafari (MIT); Carlo Curino (Microsoft); Sam Madden (MIT)

D-Hive: Data Bees Pollinating RDF, Text, and Time [PDF]

Srikanta Bedathur (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology); Klaus Berberich (MPII); Ioannis Patlakas (MPII); Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras); Gerhard Weikum (MPII)

CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding [PDF]

Gianluca Demartini (University of Fribourg); Beth Trushkowsky (UC Berkeley); Tim Kraska (Brown University); Michael Franklin (UC Berkeley)

Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration [PDF]

Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University); Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University); Justin DeBrabant (Brown University); Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Kyriaki Dimitriadou (Brandeis University); Alex Kalinin (Brown University); Olga Papaemmanouil (Brandeis University); Stan Zdonik (Brown University)

Abstraction without regret in data management systems [PDF]

Christoph Koch (EPFL)

6:00pm-7:00pm Dinner

7:15pm-9:00pm Outrageous Ideas and Vision III: Devices and Security (Chair: Donald Kossmann)

The Necessary Death of the Block Device Interface [PDF]

Matias Bjorling (IT University of Copenhagen); Philippe Bonnet (IT University of Copenhagen); Luc Bouganim (INRIA); Niv Dayan (IT University of Copenhagen)

WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages [PDF]

Alekh Jindal (Saarland University); Jorge Quiane (Saarland University); Jens Dittrich (Saarland University)

The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like? [PDF]

Ryan Johnson (University of Toronto); Ippokratis Pandis (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Querying Without Keyboards [PDF]

Arnab Nandi (The Ohio State University)

Trusted Cells: A Sea Change for Personal Data Services [PDF]

Nicolas Anciaux (INRIA); Philippe Bonnet (IT University of Copenhagen); Luc Bouganim (INRIA); Benjamin Nguyen (INRIA); Iulian Popa (INRIA); Philippe Pucheral (INRIA)

Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use [PDF]

Prasang Upadhyaya (University of Washington); Nick Anderson (University of Washington); Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington); Bill Howe (University of Washington); Raghav Kaushik (Microsoft Research); Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft Research); Dan Suciu (University of Washington)

9:00pm-9:15pm Best Paper and Gong Show Awards Ceremony (Chair: Yanlei Diao)

9:15pm Lubricated Discussions

Wednesday January 9th, 2013

7:30am Breakfast

8:30am-10:10am HUMAN/MACHINE INTEGRATION (Chair: Philippe Bonnet)

dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips [PDF]

Stratos Idreos (CWI); Erietta Liarou (EPFL)

Arnold: Declarative Crowd-Machine Data Integration [PDF]

Shawn Jeffery (Groupon); Liwen Sun (UC Berkeley); Matt DeLand (Groupon); Nick Pendar (Groupon); Rick Barber (Stanford University); Andrew Galdi (Stanford University)

Data Integration and Data Exchange: It's Really About Time [PDF]

Mary Roth (UC Santa Cruz); Wang-Chiew Tan (UC Santa Cruz)

Quantum Databases [PDF]

Sudip Roy (Cornell University); Lucja Kot (Cornell University); Christoph Koch (EPFL)

10:10am-10:30am Coffee Break

10:30am-12:10pm SYSTEM STORIES (Chair: Shel Finkelstein)

Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System [PDF]

Michael Stonebraker (MIT); Daniel Bruckner (UC Berkeley); Ihab Ilyas (QCRI); George Beskales (QCRI); Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University); Stan Zdonik (Brown University); Alexander Pagan (MIT); Shan Xu (Verisk Analytics)

COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design [PDF]

Jana Giceva (ETH Zurich); Tudor-Ioan Salomie (ETH Zurich); Adrian Schupbach (ETH Zurich); Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich); Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich)

Meet Charles, big data query advisor [PDF]

Thibault Sellam (CWI); Martin Kersten (CWI)

Engagements: Building Eventually ACiD Business Transactions [PDF]

Pat Helland; Don Haderle

12:00pm Box lunch in Chapel

12:10pm-12:30pm Outrageous Ideas and Vision Awards and Closing Remarks