Annual Report 2007/2008 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH ...

BTW 2007
12. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web
The 12th Conference on Business, Technology and the Web (BTW) of the German Computer
Society (GI) was held on 5 - 9 March 2007 at the RWTH Aachen University. The conference
was organized by the chairs Informatik 5 (Information Systems, Prof. M. Jarke) and
Informatik 9 (Data Management and Exploration). About 275 participants registered for the
conference.
The BTW 2007 conference included a research, an industrial, and a demo track. In addition,
several workshops, tutorials and a workshop for undergraduate students were co-located with
the conference. The research program focused on the development of core database
technologies, such as query processing and optimization, indexing, and integration, but also
on related areas such as web systems and XML. The industrial program included
presentations on database applications in industry and addressed topics such as data
transformation, distributed and mobile databases. In the demonstration track, software
demonstrations on data warehousing and peer data management systems were shown.
Conference Chairs and Programme Chairs of BTW 2007:
Dr. Schöning, Prof. A. Kemper, Prof. T. Seidl, Prof. T. Rose, Prof. M. Jarke
The conference organizers were also able to invite three renowned database experts who gave
interesting keynote presentations: Christian Jensen from Aalborg University in Denmark
presented a project for the management of mobile Internet services; Rudolf Munz from SAP
AG in Germany reported on the experiences on data management in SAP applications; and
Göz Graefe from HP Labs in USA discussed locking strategies for b-trees.
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