THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER
8.30 - 9.00 Registration and continental breakfast
9.00 - 9.10 Welcome (Massimo Marchiori, QL'98 Chair)
9.10 - 9.55 Database Desiderata for an XML Query Language (D.Maier) (chair: Massimo Marchiori)
9.55 - 10.10 break/registration
Query Languages I (chair: Mary Fernandez)
10.10 - 10.50 XML-QL (A.Deutsch, M.Fernandez, D.Florescu, A.Levy, D.Suciu)
10.50 - 11.30 XQL (J.Robie, J.Lapp, D.Schach)
11.30 - 11.50 questions/discussion
11.50 - 12.05 break/registration
12.05 - 12.50 Querying XML with Lore (J.Widom) (chair: Bill Smith)
12.50 - 14.20 lunch
14.20 - 14.50 RDF Tutorial (R.Swick) (chair: John Kunze)
Metadata (chair: Dan Connolly)
14.50 - 15.05 Enabling Inferencing (R.V.Guha, O.Lassila, E.Miller, D.Brickley)
15.05 - 15.20 Query + Metadata + Logic = Metalog (M.Marchiori, J.Saarela)
15.20 - 15.30 questions/discussion
15.30 - 15.45 break
Requirements (chair: Sharon Adler)
15.45 - 16.00 Requirements for a P3P Query Language (L.F.Cranor)
16.00 - 16.15 The Query Language Position Paper of the XSL Working Group
16.15 - 16.25 questions/discussion
16.25 - 16.40 break
Information mediation and Databases (chair: Stan Zdonik)
16.40 - 17.15 The COntext INterchange (COIN) Project (S.Madnick, M.Siegel)
17.15 - 17.30 Do we really need a new query language for XML? (G.Mecca, P.Merialdo, P.Atzeni)
17.30 - 17.45 Features and Requirements for an XML View Definition Language
(C.Baru, B.Ludascher, Y.Papakonstantinou, P.Velikhov,V.Vianu)
17.45 - 18.00 questions/discussion
18.00 - 19.00 wine & cheese reception
FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER
9.00 - 9.30 Querying XML (Adam Bosworth)
9.30 - 9.45 break
Search and Retrieval (chair: Michael Sperberg-McQueen)
9.45 - 10.00 Element Sets: A Minimal Basis for an XML Query Engine (Tim Bray)
10.00 - 10.15 Locating Data Repositories using XML (G.Mihaila, L.Raschid)
10.15 - 10.30 WWW Data and Services: Querying, Integration and Automation (D.Konopnicki, O.Shmueli)
10.30 - 10.45 questions/discussion
10.45 - 11.00 break
Query Languages II (chair: Steven DeRose)
11.00 - 11.15 XER: the XML Encoding Rules (Eliot Christian)
11.15 - 11.30 XQL: A Query Language for XML Data (H.Ishikawa, K.Kubota, Y.Kanemasa)
11.30 - 11.45 XML-GL: A Graphical Language for Querying and Reshaping XML Documents
(S.Ceri, S.Comai, E.Damiani, P.Fraternali, S.Paraboschi, L.Tanca)
11.45 - 12.00 Beyond XML Query Languages (P.Buneman, A.Deutsch, W.Fan, H.Liefke, A.Sahuguet, W.Tan)
12.00 - 12.30 questions/discussion
12.30 - 14.00 lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Industry Panel (chair: Massimo Marchiori)
Confirmed participants: Microsoft, IBM, Netscape, Oracle, Lotus, Pervasive