MDAC 2010 Agenda
9:00 - 10:30: Session 1
Introduction and Welcome
Invited Talk: "Hadoop: An Industry Perspective"
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
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
Joos-Hendrik Böse1, Artur Andrzejak2, Mikael Högqvist2; 1Intl. Comp. Sci. Institute, 2Zuse
Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Efficient Updates for a Shared Nothing Analytics Platform
Katerina Doka3, Dimitrios Tsoumakos4, Nectarios Koziris3; 3National Technical University
of Athens, Greece, 4University of Cyprus
12:30 - 1:30: Lunch*
1:30 - 3:30: Session 3
Invited Talk: "Large Scale Applications on Hadoop in Yahoo"
Dr. Vijay Narayanan, Yahoo! Labs Silicon Valley,
Extracting User Profiles from Large Scale Data
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
Padmashree Ravindra, Vikas Deshpande, Kemafor Anyanwu; North Carolina State University
SPARQL Basic Graph Pattern Processing with Iterative MapReduce
Jaeseok Myung, Jongheum Yeon, Sang-goo Lee; Seoul National University
Parallelizing Random Walk with Restart for Large-Scale Query Recommendation
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