Foundations and Applications of Schema Mappings

1. Foundations and Applications of Schema Mappings Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between database schemas. Schema mappings are prominent in several different areas of database management, including database design, information integration, data exchange, metadata management, and peer-to-peer data management systems. Our main aim in this talk is to present an overview of recent advances in data exchange and metadata management, where the schema mappings are between relational schemas. In addition, we highlight some research issues and directions for future work. Phokion G. Kolaitis University of California Santa Cruz & IBM Research - Almaden PhokionKolaitis is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Cruz and a Research Staff Member of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department (a.k.a. the Theory Group) at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His research interests include principles of database systems, logic in computer science, and computational complexity. Kolaitis is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and the recipient of a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also the recipient of an IBM Research Division Outstanding Innovation Award, an IBM Research Division Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and a co-winner of the 2008 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award. Wednesday June 27, 10:00 a.m. Concordia University EV Building, 1515 St. Catherine St. West. Room EV 3.309