MDAC 2010 Agenda

9:00 - 10:30: Session 1

Introduction and Welcome (ppt)

Invited Talk: "Hadoop: An Industry Perspective" (ppt)

Dr. Amr Awadallah, CTO, VP-Engineering, Cloudera

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break*

11:00 - 12:30: Session 2

Distributed Indexing of Web Scale Datasets for the Cloud (ppt)
Ioannis Konstantinou, Evangelos Angelou, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectarios Koziris;

National Technical University of Athens

Beyond Online Aggregation: Parallel and Incremental Data Mining with
Online Map-Reduce (ppt)
Joos-Hendrik Böse¹, Artur Andrzejak², Mikael Högqvist²

¹Intl. Comp. Sci. Institute, ²Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)

Efficient Updates for a Shared Nothing Analytics Platform (ppt)
Katerina Doka¹, Dimitrios Tsoumakos², Nectarios Koziris¹

¹National Technical University of Athens, Greece, ²University of Cyprus

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch*

1:30 - 3:30: Session 3

Invited Talk: "Large Scale Applications on Hadoop in Yahoo" (ppt)

Dr. Vijay Narayanan, Yahoo! Labs Silicon Valley,

Extracting User Profiles from Large Scale Data (ppt)
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Haggai Roitman, David Carmel, Yosi Mass, David Konopnicki

IBM Research, Haifa

A Novel Approach to Multiple Sequence Alignment using Hadoop Data Grids
Sudha Sadasivam, G. Baktavatchalam;

PSG College of Technology

3:30 - 4:00: Coffee Break*

4:00 - 5:30: Session 4

Towards Scalable RDF Graph Analytics on MapReduce (ppt)
Padmashree Ravindra, Vikas Deshpande, Kemafor Anyanwu

North Carolina State University

SPARQL Basic Graph Pattern Processing with Iterative MapReduce (ppt)
Jaeseok Myung, Jongheum Yeon, Sang-goo Lee

Seoul National University

Parallelizing Random Walk with Restart for Large-Scale Query Recommendation (ppt)
Meng-Fen Chiang, Tsung-Wei Wang, Wen-Chih Peng

National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

*Coffee Breaks and Lunch are provided by the workshop for the attendees

MDAC 2010 Invited Speakers

Dr. Amr Awadallah

Vice President, Engineering, Cloudera

Amr co-founded VivaSmart in June of 1999. Yahoo! acquired VivaSmart in June 2000, and uses the VivaSmart technology as the core of the Yahoo! shopping service. Amr served as Vice President of Engineering, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. Amr holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Vijay K. Narayanan

Yahoo! Labs Silicon Valley

Vijay K. Narayanan is currently working on problems related to computational advertising in the Advertising Sciences group in Yahoo Labs. He received a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and a Ph.D in Astronomy from The Ohio State University, and was a Sloan Digital Sky Survey Research Fellow in Astrophysics in Princeton University. He has authored about 55 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of theoretical and observational astrophysics and in large scale query classification, and about a dozen conference publications.

Workshop Chairs

Ullas Nambiar, IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India

John McPherson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

David Konopnicki, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

Steering Committee

Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Search Labs, Mountain View, CA, USA

Alon Halevy, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

Program Committee

Amr Awadallah, Cloudera, USA

Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Assaf Schuster, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Gautam Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA

Jimeng Sun, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

John Shafer, Microsoft Search Labs, USA

Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Kun Liu, Yahoo! Labs, USA

Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Rajeev Gupta, IBM India Research Lab, India

Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo Research, USA

Yannis Sismanis, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Yi Chen, Arizona State University, USA

Wen-syan Li, SAP, China