KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Timos Sellis, an expert in the area of multidimensional indexing and data warehousing, analyzed the entire lifecycle of ETL workflows, from specification to optimized execution, offering solutions as well as future challenges.
Gerhard Weikum, a leader of several efforts falling at the intersection of databases and information retrieval, discussed the emergence of several "Webs" and how these may be harvested and searched for knowledge.
Paolo Atzeni, well-known for several contributions to database theory, addressed the perennial problem of schema and data translation in the context of emerging model management systems and outlined several research challenges that emerge.