[Berkeley Database Seminar Resumes!]

These seminars generally cover database internals
as opposed to database usage. They are similar
to Sailesh's TelegraphCQ talk at our meeting last night.
They do not necessarily include any postgresql content,
but they present what the grad students are doing with
databases these days.

--elein

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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:12:52 -0700
From: Michael Franklin <franklin(at)CS(dot)Berkeley(dot)EDU>
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Hello All,

The weekly Berkeley DB Seminar is back, starting this week. Talks will
be Fridays 1-2:30 in room 380 Soda Hall. This week's speaker will be
Tilo Balke, who is wrapping up a post-doctoral visit with our group.
The information for his talk is below.

The *tentative* schedule for the semester is as follows:

9/10 Wolf-Tilo Balke, UC Berkeley
9/17 Charles Beadnal, Verisign
9/24 Jennifer Widom, Stanford

10/1 Chandrakant Patel, HP Labs
10/8 Mary Tork-Roth, IBM SVL
10/15 NO SEMINAR - Intel Research Berkeley Open House
10/22 Alon Halevy, U. Washington
10/29 Roger Lueder and Jim Gemel, Microsoft BARC

11/5 Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research
11/12 NO SEMINAR - SIGMOD Prep
11/19 Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich
11/26 NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving

12/3 Alkis Polyzotis, UCSC
12/10 Rada Chirkova, N. Carolina State

Check the seminar web page (which will be updated shortly) for talk
titles and abstracts as they become available, and of course, for
changes to the schedule. The web page also has instructions for how to
subscribe to(if you want to invite some friends) or unsubscribe from
this mailing list.

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/dblunch.html

I hope to see you at the DB seminar this semester.

Best Regards,

Mike Franklin

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This Week's Talk
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"Building and Evaluating Profile Information in Digital Service
Provisioning"

Wolf-Tilo Balke, UC Berkeley

Abstract:
User profile information is the key to building advanced database
applications and providing (Web) services in a deeply personalized
fashion. The talk will focus on how to collect, manage and describe
semantically meaningful profile information and how to evaluate service
requests expanded with this information efficiently. We will see that
basic techniques from cooperative retrieval like query relaxation,
ontology-based selection and quality evaluation will be necessary step
stones in our service provisioning framework towards a large number of
complex applications like e.g. the digital home. We will also cast a
critical eye on what communities have to be involved in the research to
provide a reasonable solution and point to open research questions in
the area of semantics that still have to be solved.

Bio:
Wolf-Tilo Balke currently is a research fellow at the University of
California at Berkeley. His research is in the area of information
systems and service provisioning, focusing on middleware retrieval
algorithms, preference-based session management, and ontology-based
discovery and selection of services. Wolf-Tilo Balke is the recipient of
two Emmy-Noether-Grants of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the
Scientific Award of the University Foundation Augsburg. He has received
his BA and MS degree in mathematics and a PhD in computer science from
University of Augsburg, Germany.

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