Report: 5th Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2010)

Report: 4th Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2009)

The Fourth International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems took place on March 29th, 2009 in Shanghai, China, on the day before ICDE. The SMDB workshops bring together researchers and practitioners interested in making data management systems easier to deploy and operate effectively. Topics of interest range from “traditional” management issues, such as database physical design, system...

Report: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2008)

Report on the Second International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2007)

Information management systems are growing rapidly in scale and complexity, while skilled database administrators are becoming rarer and more expensive. Increasingly, the total cost of ownership of information management systems is dominated by the cost of people, rather than hardware or software costs. This economic dynamic dictates that information systems of the future be more automated and ...

IWWG News & Views

In this issue: Report on Sardinia 2015; IWWG Task Group Landfill Aeration: report on workshop during Sardinia 2015; News from the latest IWWG Managing Board Meeting; announcement of ICLRS 2016 – 9th Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium, announcement of Venice 2016 – 6th International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste, announcement of CRETE 2016 – 5th International Conference on...

Report from the 4th Workshop on Extremely Large Databases

Academic and industrial users are increasingly facing the challenge of petabytes of data, but managing and analyzing such large data sets still remains a daunting task. The 4 Extremely Large Databases workshop was organized to examine the needs of communities under-represented at the past workshops facing these issues. Approaches to big data statistical analytics as well as emerging opportuniti...