The XIME-P 2006 Program
The XIME-P 2006 program features a lively mixture of 7 talks, discussions, 11 system demos, and a concluding panel. A keynote address by Don Chamberlin of IBM Almaden — a lead of the W3C XQuery Working Group — resumes the program after the workshop lunch (included in registration). Program details are below.
XIME-P 2006 is held all-day on Friday, June 30, 2006. The workshop location is the Riviere Ballroom D (3rd floor) in the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, i.e., the SIGMOD 2006 conference hotel.
Timetable (Friday, June 30, Riviere Ballroom D)
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Breakfast and On-site Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:00 |
Welcome
Session 1: Extensions to XQuery Positional Grouping in XQuery (Michael Kay) Programming with XQuery (Don Chamberlin, Mike Carey, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Jonathan Robie) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 |
Session 2: XQuery Implementation
A Fully Pipelined XQuery Processor (Leonidas Fegaras, Ranjan Dash, YingHui Wang) Template Folding for XPath (Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte) Building a Native XML-DBMS as a Term Project in a Database Systems Course (Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu, Stefanie Scherzinger) |
| 12:00 – 01:30 | Workshop Lunch (provided) |
| 01:30 – 02:30 |
Invited Talk by
Don Chamberlin (IBM Almaden): "XQuery: Where Do We Go From Here?" |
| 02:30 – 04:00 |
"Caffeine and Code"
Joint Coffee and Demonstration break. Informal teaser talks and demonstrations of 11 XQuery implementations and applications. Unlimited bragging and discussion opportunity. |
| 04:00 – 05:00 |
Session 3: XQuery and Annotated XML
Efficient XQuery Support for Stand-Off Annotation (Wouter Alink, Raoul Bhoedjang, Arjen de Vries, Peter Boncz) Multihierarchical XQuery for Document-Centric XML (Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar) |
| 05:00 – 06:00 |
Panel: Programming Languages for XML
Chaired by Daniela Florescu Panelists: Ron Avnur (MarkLogic), Mike Carey (BEA), Michael Kay (Saxonica), Erik Meijer (Microsoft) |
"Caffeine and Code": Coffee and XQuery System Demos
In the 2:30–4:00 pm afternoon session, enjoy your extended coffee break and get to know novel and innovative XQuery implementations, tools, applications as well as the developers behind the code. Eleven one-minute teaser talks and system demos invite you to listen, watch, chat, sip, discuss, praise, and challenge.
Featured Demonstrations
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Vinayak Borkar (BEA, USA) |
XQuery Tools in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform |
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Jonathan Robie (Data Direct, USA) |
XQuery Debugger in Stylus Studio |
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Leonidas Fegaras (U Texas at Arlington, USA) |
XQPull – A Streaming XQuery Processor |
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Erik Meijer (Microsoft, USA) |
XLINQ |
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Carl-Christian Kanne (U Mannheim, Germany) |
The Native XML Data Store Natix V2 |
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Chavdar Botev (Cornell U, USA) |
XQuery Full-Text with Quark |
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Ron Avnur (Mark Logic, USA) |
O'Reilly Media's SafariU XQuery-Based Content Publishing Application |
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Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob (U of Kentucky, USA) |
Multihierarchical XQuery |
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Titash Neogi (Symantec, USA) |
A Help Framework Based on XQuery |
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Stefan Manegold (CWI Amsterdam, NL) |
MonetDB/XQuery: Purely Relational XQuery Processing |
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Michael Kay (Saxonica Ltd, UK) |
Schema-aware Processing in Saxon-SA |
Workshop Registration
XIME-P 2006 is held in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD 2006. You can register for the workshop via the SIGMOD registration process (online or offline).
Registration rates are shown below. The rates are unaffected by the SIGMOD 2006 early bird registration deadline. Note that you can upgrade an existing SIGMOD 2006 registration to include XIME-P 2006. Workshop-only registration is possible as well.
| ACM Member | Non-Member | Student |
|---|---|---|
| $80 | $120 | $55 |
Workshop advance registration ends June 19, 2006. After June 19, you can register on-site.



