10381 Summary and Abstracts Collection – Robust Query Processing

Abstract

Dagstuhl seminar 10381 on robust query processing (held 19.09.10 -
24.09.10) brought together a diverse set of researchers and practitioners
with a broad range of expertise for the purpose of fostering discussion
and collaboration regarding causes, opportunities, and solutions for
achieving robust query processing.
The seminar strove to build a unified view across 
the loosely-coupled system components responsible for
the various stages of database query processing. 
Participants were chosen for their experience with database
query processing and, where possible, their prior work in academic
research or in product development towards robustness in database query
processing. 
In order to pave the way to motivate, measure, and protect future advances
in robust query processing, seminar 10381 focused on developing tests
for measuring the robustness of query processing.
In these proceedings, we first review the seminar topics, goals,
and results, then present abstracts or notes of some of the seminar break-out
sessions. 
We also include, as an appendix, 
the robust query processing reading list that
was collected and distributed to participants before the seminar began,
as well as summaries of a few of those papers that were 
contributed by some participants.