KRDB 1998

Final Program

 

9:00-9:10

Opening of the workshop

Vinay K. Chaudhri

9:10-9:40

Session 1: What's your point?

Session Chair: Martin Staudt

Participants will state their positions with respect to the workshop theme.

9:40-10:45

Session 2: Query Interfaces

Session chair: Martin Staudt

W. Andersen (University of Maryland, USA), B. Peterson (SAIC, USA),

J. Engel (SAIC, USA)

Knowledge Bus System: Generating Application-focused Databases from Large Ontologies

D. D. Karunaratna (University of Colombo, Srilanka), W. A. Gray and N. J. Fiddian (University of Wales-Cardiff, UK)

Organizing Knowledge of a Federated Database System to Support Multiple Views

10:45-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session 3: Application Programming Interfaces

Session chair: Alex Borgida

Invited talk:

Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA

OKBC: A Programmatic Foundation for Knowledge Base Interoperability

Responses to invited talk:

Patrick Martin, Queen's University, Canada

Juliana Freire, Bell Labs Research, USA

 

12:30-13:30: Lunch

 

13:30-14:45

Session 4: Invited Talk

Session chair: Vinay K. Chaudhri

Alon Levy, University of Washington at Seattle

From Knowledge Reformulation to Data Warehouse Design

Responses to invited talk:

T. Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

S. Decker, University of Karlshuhe, Germany

 

14:45-15:00: Coffee Break

 

15:00-16:00

Session 5: Evaluating Query Interfaces

Panel Chair: Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA

Vinay K. Chaudhri

Evaluating a knowledge-intensive query interface

Ugur Cetintemel, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Evaluating answer quality/efficiency tradeoffs

Ray Liuzzi, Airforce Research Laboratory, USA

Evaluating an intelligent system

 

16:00-17:15

Session 6: Why not knowledge representation for semistructured data?

Panel Chair: Daniela Florescu, INRIA, France

Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome, Italy

Knowledge bases for semistructured data

Len Seligman, MITRE, USA

Databases for semistructured data

Phil Bernstein, Microsoft, USA

Information repositories for semistructured data