Title: Efficient Shredding of XML into Relations

Speaker: George Mihaila (joint work with Nianjun Zhou, Sriram Padmanabhan,
and Dikran Meliksetian)

Abstract:
XML is used more and more as a platform-independent format for
data exchange between business applications. However, most operational
business data is still stored in relational databases and will remain so
in the foreseeable future. As a result, a great deal of implementation
effort is spent in developing data conversion components that extract
specific fragments from an incoming XML message and insert or update data
in one or more relational databases. To address this problem, we propose a
declarative language for specifying mappings and an efficient runtime
engine that automates the data conversion task. The engine implements a
linear time XML shredding algorithm which processes the documents in a
streaming, SAX-based mode.

Speaker Bio:
George Mihaila obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the
University of Bucharest in 1991. He received a Master of Science in
Computer Science in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000 from the
University of Toronto. His thesis research was on publishing, locating and
querying networked information sources. He served on the faculty of the
University of Bucharest from 1991 to 1993 and worked in industry as a
systems analyst from 1991 to 1994. He joined the Research Staff of IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center in December, 2000. Dr. Mihaila's research
interests include data integration, XML storage and query processing, Web
query languages, and selective dissemination of information.