We present two server initiated protocols to improve the performance of distributed information systems e g WWW Our rst protocol is a hierarchical data dissemination mechanism that allows information to propagate from its producers to servers that are closer to its consumers This dissemination reduces network tra c and balances load amongst servers by exploiting geographic and temporal locality...

in 2002 and kept the Executive Committee she had selected intact to continue its excellent work. We have continued the sponsorship of international database related conferences, especially of course our flagship conference, the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). We also have, with the help of our excellent Editor in Chief Dave Lomet, continued the publication of the quarterly ...

In this article, ambassadors of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Educational Resources (OER) Advocacy Committee (OERAC) provide a snapshot regional global initiatives. This committee has been active since 2017 with membership renewed biannually. The work to further OER awareness understanding, increase recognition OER, policy support acceptance application OER. o...

Graduate Student Name: Zhang, Yi Worked for more than 160 Hours: Yes Contribution to Project: Since the project's conception Yi Zhang has been the main student contributor. He has been involved in most of the research and development efforts, including the RIOT-DB system (CIDR 2009) and the next generation RIOT system (ICDE 2010, PVLDB 2011). Yi is currently focusing on RIOT execution and optim...

the past and current members of the Steering Committee that have served during my time. We have been a great team that worked very well together in selecting future conferences, tracking their planning process and evaluating the final result. Here thanks are also due to Dr. Thomas Risse, my assistant in handling the Chairmans duties. I am so thankful that we together have been able to grow ICDE...

Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Queensland, leading its Data and Knowledge Engineering research group. He received his BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland. Before joining UQ in 1999, he worked as a researcher in CSIRO. His research focus is to find effective and effici...

Four methods have been proposed that can be used to test for associations between the states of discrete characters in cross-species data and that do not suffer from non-independence due to overcounting of data points. The tests are those of Ridley (1983), Burt (1989), Grafen (1989), and a new test called the ICDE test. The aim of the paper is to measure the Type I error rates for these methods...