Please email dbucla@cs.ucla.edu if you'd like to give a talk. Time and subject are very flexible.
Welcome to the homepage for the UCLA Database Group Seminar! This seminar is a weekly informal meeting. We usually have a paper presentation either of our own recent work or of recent papers of general interest. All talks are held in Boelter Hall 4549 between 12:30 - 2:00pm unless otherwise specified.
On this site, you will find upcoming talk announcements and abstracts from previous talks. You can also receive talk announcements on our mailing list. If you are interested, See the instructions for adding yourself to the mailing list.
Directions for outside speakers.
2004 | 2003
2002-2003 : [ fall | winter | spring ]
2001-2002 : [ fall | winter | spring ]
2000-2001 : [ winter | spring ]
| Fall, 2005 |
| Summer, 2005 |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 9/23 | Professor Carlo Zaniolo | Mining Databases and Data Streams with Query Languages and Rules |
| 9/16 | Elio Masciari | Fast Detection of XML Structural Similarity |
| 9/9 | Yan-Nei Law | An Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classification Algorithm for Data |
| Spring, 2005 |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 6/10 | Shaorong Liu | Vague Content and Structure (VCAS) Retrieval for Document-centric XML collections |
| 6/03 | Mehrdad Jahangiri (USC) | SHIFT-SPLIT: I/O Efficient Maintenance of Wavelet-Transformed Multidimensional Data |
| 5/27 | Raymond Pon | Data Quality Inference |
| 5/20 | Hetal Thakkar | A Native Extension of SQL for Mining Data Streams (Demo) |
| 5/13 | Hyun Jin Moon | Answering queries using views: A survey |
| 5/06 | Alexandros Ntoulas | The Infocious Web Search Engine: Improving Web Searching Through Linguistic Analysis |
| 5/06 | Fang Chu, Andrea | Improving Mining Quality by Exploiting Data Dependency |
| 4/29 | Yu Xu (UCSD) | Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest Lowest Common Ancestors in XML Databases |
| 4/22 | Ka Cheung Sia, Richard | Efficient Monitoring Algorithm for Fast News Alert |
| 4/15 | Fang Chu, Andrea | Job Talk |
| Winter, 2005 |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 3/18 | Yizhou Wang | Statistical Inference on Markov Random Graphs |
| 3/04 | Yizhou Wang | Modeling and Inference of Complex Motion on Graphs |
| 2/11 | Qinghua Zou | mGrid: a Matching Grid for Querying XML Streams |
| 1/28 | Victor Liu | Improving text retrieval using context, domain knowledge and probabilistic content modeling |