Welcome to XIME-P 2007!
XIME-P 2007 invites original research contributions as well as reports on industrial efforts on the implementation, utilization, and overall prospects of XQuery. Like the 2004 (Paris), 2005 (Baltimore) and 2006 (Chicago) editions of the XIME-P workshop series, XIME-P 2007 will be held just after and in cooperation with the ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference, this time in Beijing, China.
On 23 January 2007, the family of XQuery specifications became W3C Recommendations. As the work on XQuery now moves toward even more powerful features, such as updates, full-text or scripting extensions, XIME-P 2007 is the ideal event to discuss the state XQuery and weigh on its future.
One of the fascinating aspects of XQuery is that work on the language specification itself, its implementation, and its application happens at the intersection of databases, document processing, and programming languages. Computer science research and industry has thus found quite a number of promising -- sometimes completely disjoint -- avenues to approach challenges in the XQuery domain. This diversity in contributions and attendees has been a source of lively discussions, panels, and lead to an interesting technical program for previous XIME-P editions. For 2007, we will try to underline this diversity.
Given that XQuery has become a W3C Recommendation, XIME-P 2007 explicitly welcomes contributions which relate to standards-compliant treatments of XQuery. Technically, this aspect can be challenging — especially when conformance and efficiency seem to be at odds (when in reality they need not be).
For 2007, we encourage forward-looking contributions that explore what future evolutions to XQuery would be useful for novel applications. Such applications may include, but are not limited to, XQuery support for Web services applications, distributed programming with XQuery, search applications with XQuery, and support for Workflow applications. The XIME-P 2007 program will feature talks on research as well as industrial efforts on the implementation and utilization of XQuery.
XIME-P 2007 Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include the following (though interesting and/or innovative papers on all aspects of XQuery are welcome):
- - Impact and implementation of static and dynamic typing
- - The role of validation in efficient XQuery processors
- - XQuery implementation paradigms: native, relational, streaming
- - XQuery debugging (esp. declarative debugging techniques)
- - XQuery and computing in the sciences
- - XQuery over very large XML instances
- - XQuery as a programming or scripting language
- - Coherent XQuery subsets and embedded XQuery processors
- - Exploiting XQuery's unordered {} and fn:unordered() in relational XQuery processors
- - Teaching XQuery (XQuery in curricula and courses in general)
Paper Submission
XIME-P 2007 calls for original contributions relevant to the open list of topics sketched above. We explicitly welcome reports on innovative, off-beat, and ''early stage'' approaches to the implementation and application of XQuery as long as the submission meets the high quality standards of the XIME-P workshop series.
- - Papers should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines and SIG proceedings templates.
- - Papers should not exceed 6 pages in length (including references and appendices). The mandatory submission file format is PDF.
The primary publication medium for XIME-P has been and will be SIGMOD DiSC. This mode of publication ensures wide dissemination and high visibility (e.g., in the ACM Digital Library and Michael Ley's DBLP index). Online proceedings will additionally be hosted at the workshop web site.
Important Dates
| Paper submission: | 6 April 2007 (Fri), 5 pm PDT |
| Notification of acceptance: | 11 May 2007 (Fri) |
| Camera-ready copy due: | 28 May 2007 (Mon) |
| Workshop: | TBD |
Workshop Co-Chairs
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Jayavel Shanmugasundaram Yahoo! Research Santa Clara, CA, USA |
Jerome Simeon IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY, USA |
Program Committee
| - Veronique Benzaken | (LRI, Universite Paris Sud, France) |
| - Peter Boncz | (CWI, The Netherlands) |
| - Don Chamberlin | (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) |
| - Chin-Wan Chung | (KAIST, Korea) |
| - Leonidas Fegaras | (Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA) |
| - Mary Fernandez | (AT&T Research, USA) |
| - Giorgio Ghelli | (Univ. Pisa, Italy) |
| - Sven Helmer | (Birbeck College, London) |
| - Donald Kossmann | (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
| - Muralidhar Krishnaprasad | (Microsoft, USA) |
| - Christoph Koch | (Saarland University, Germany) |
| - Laks Lakshmanan | (Univ. British Columbia, Canada) |
| - Philippe Michiels | (Univ. Antwerp, Belgium) |
| - Ravi Murthy | (Oracle, USA) |
| - Paul Pedersen | (FLWOR Foundation, USA) |
| - Michael Rys | (Microsoft, USA) |