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Gostaria de convida-los para a palestra do Prof. Patrick Valduriez
a ser realizada aqui na COPPE.
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pelo nosso projeto Ecobase(CNPq-INRIA)
http://uniserver.uniriotec.br/ecobase/.

Conto com voces,
                Marta

Titulo: From XML to universal Web data exchange
Conferencista:  Patrick Valduriez
                Inria, Paris - Franca

Data: 28/08/2000
Hora: 14:00h
Local:  Sala G-122
        Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco G, terreo
        Ilha do Fundao  

Informacoes sobre a palestra:
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From XML to universal Web data exchange

Patrick Valduriez
Inria, Paris
France


E-commerce applications such as BtoB, EDI, supply chain 
integration and on-line catalogs all face the hard problem 
of integration with information systems, which requires 
data exchange across platforms and enterprises. 

XML is the recently adopted W3C standard intended to be 
the universal Web data exchange format, bringing data 
portability across applications. It is predicted to become 
the world's commercial hub for all kinds of businesses.
XML is already having a strong impact on Web-related technologies
including Web servers, search engines, application servers and 
database servers.

This seminar will introduce XML and discuss its impact on E-commerce
and Intranet applications. It will cover in some details XML's 
semi-structured data model, presentation language (XSL), 
query language (XQL), schema languages (DTD and XML-Schema)
and distributed programming through XML (with Java, RPC and  
transactions).
It will also review the major XML products available on the 
market, in particular XML servers (BizTalk, eXcelon, Tamino, 
BlueStone), application servers (WebLogic, OAS, WebSphere, 
SilverStream, ...) and database servers (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, 
Informix, ..).

This seminar is intended for a general audience of students, 
researchers and IT professionnals.

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Short biography of Dr. Patrick Valduriez

Patrick Valduriez received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science 
from the University of Paris 6 in 1981. He is currently a Director 
of Research at INRIA, the national research center for computer 
science in France. There he heads the R&D joint venture Dyade 
between Bull and Inria to foster technology transfer in the areas 
of Internet/Intranet and E-commerce.

From 1989 to 1999, he headed the Rodin project,
a group of researchers working on distributed database technology.
From 1985 to 1989, he was a senior scientist at Microelectronics and
Computer Technology Corp. (Austin, Texas). There he participated in 
the design and implementation of the Bubba parallel database system.

He is the author or co-author of many technical papers and several 
books, among which "Principles of Distributed Database Systems" 
published by Prentice Hall in 1991 and 1999 (2nd edition),
and "Object Technology" published by Thomson Computer Press in 1997.

He is a trustee of the VLDB endowment and an associate editor of 
several journals including ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 
the VLDB Journal and Distributed and Parallel Databases. 
He has also served as program chair of PDIS'93, SIGMOD'97, VLDB'98 
(industrial program), VLDB'99 (european program). 
He was the recipient of the 1993 IBM scientific prize in France.
He is co-author of the VLDB'2000 best paper award.
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