WebDB'98: Program and Call for Attendance 
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Participation to the workshop is open to all EDBT participants. Registration is required, and will be handled along with the conference registration. A small additional registration fee (10.000 pesetas) is required; this covers a copy of the informal workshop proceedings, coffee breaks, and an informal dinner on Friday.

Friday,
17:00-18:20 
 
Session 1 
Internet Programming: 
Tools and Applications
 
  A Unified Algorithm for Cache Replacement and Consistency in Web Proxy Servers J. Shim, P. Scheuermann, R. Vingralek
  Transactional Services for the Web 
 
D. Billard
  On the Unification of Persistent Programming and the World Wide Web R. Connor, K. Sibson, P. Manghi
  The Fenarete System: a Web based clinical protocol management system S. Puglia, G. Rumolo
Friday, 
21:00-24:00 
 
WebDB'98 Informal Dinner 
 
 
 
Saturday, 
9:30-10:50 
 
Session 2: 
Integration and Access 
to Web Data
 
  Schema Based Data Translation 
 
 
T. Milo, S. Zohar 
 
  Interactive Query and Search in Semistructured Databases 
 
R. Goldman, J. Widom
  Bringing Database Functionality to the WWW 
 
D. Konopnicki, O. Shmueli
  Fixpoint Path Queries 
 
 
N. Bidoit, M. Ykhlef 
 
 
Saturday, 
10:50-11:20 
 
Coffee Break 
 
 
 
Saturday, 
11:20-12:50 
Session 3 
 
PANEL:   
"Databases and the Web:   
The next ten years"  
 
Panelists: Karl Aberer, Serge Abiteboul, Piero Fraternali, Tova Milo, Yannis Papakonstantinou 
Chair: Alberto Mendelzon
Saturday, 
12:50-14:30 
 
Lunch Time
 
Saturday, 
14:30-15:50 
 
Session 4 
Hypertext views on databases
 
  A language for publishing virtual documents on the Web 
 
F. Paradis, A. M. Vercoustre 
  Incremental Maintenance of Hypertext Views 
 
G. Sindoni
 
Using YAT to build a Web server 
 
 
G. Simeon, S. Cluet 
 
 
 
Language and tools to specify hypertext views on databases 
 
G. Falquet, J. Guyot, L. Nerima 
 
 
Saturday,
15:50-16:20
 
Coffee Break 
 
 
 
Saturday,
16:20-17:40
 
Session 5 
Searching and Mining the Web
 
 
WebSuite -- A tool suite for 
harnessing Web data 
 
C. Beeri, G. Elber, T. Milo, Y. Sagiv, O. Shmueli, N. Tishby, Y. Kogan, D. Konopnicki, P. Mogilevski, N. Slonim
 
Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web 
 
S. Brin 
 
 
 
WUM - A Tool for WWW Ulitization Analysis 
 
M. Spiliopoulou, L. C. Faulstich 
 
 
 
Finding Near-Replicas of Documents and Servers on the Web N. Shivakumar, H. Garcia-Molina 
 
 
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