| Week | Topic | Readings | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/5/99 | Organizational meeting | (none) | (none) |
| 1/12/99 | Definition of schema and query Relational algebra, Datalog, negation |
Portions of chapters 3, 4, 5, 12 | Zack slides (ppt) |
| 1/19/99 | Object identity | Object Identity as a Query Language Primitive, Serge Abiteboul and Paris C. Kanellakis | Corey slides (ppt) |
| 1/26/99 | Expressive power of query languages | Chapter 16 | Todd slides (ps) |
| 2/2/99 | Containment | Information Integration Using Logical Views, Jeffrey D. Ullman, ICDT 97 | Rachel slides (ppt) |
| 2/9/99 | Information Retrieval | Latent Semantic Indexing: A Probabilistic Analysis, Christos Papadimitriou et al, PODS 98. | Omid slides(ppt) |
| 2/16/99 | Magic sets | Erik Vee | |
| 2/23/99 | Semistructured data | Suciu survey paper | Aung |
| 3/2/99 | Incomplete information | Marc | |
| 3/9/99 | Database Metatheory | Database metatheory: asking the big queries, Christos Papadimitriou, PODS 95. | An Hai |
Last quarter's 590db - Query Optimization
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