There are two main goals of this technical section of the PODS web site: to provide links to database theory columns in SIGMOD Record and SIGACT News, and to give reports on conferences of interest to the PODS community,

Columns

Database Principles Column of SIGMOD Record edited by Leonid Libkin
(The complete list of articles, including upcoming issues, can also be found here)

Vol. 35, Number 4, December 2006	Marcelo Arenas Normalization Theory for XML
Vol. 35, Number 2, June 2006	Leopoldo Bertossi Consistent Query Answering in Databases
Vol. 35, Number 1, March 2006	Alin Deutsch, Lucian Popa, and Val Tannen Query Reformulation with Constraints
Vol. 34, Number 3, September 2005	Francesco Scarcello Query Answering Exploiting Structural Properties
Vol. 34, Number 2, June 2005	Rick Hull and Jianwen Su Tools for Composite Web Services: A Short Overview
Vol. 34, Number 1, March 2005	Sara Cohen Containment of Aggregate Queries
Vol. 33, Number 2, June 2004	Georg Gottlob and Christoph Koch Logic-based Web Information Extraction
Vol. 33, Number 1, March 2004	Thomas Schwentick XPath Query Containment
Vol. 32, Number 4, December 2003	Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, and Moshe Vardi Reasoning on Regular Path Queries
Vol. 32, Number 2, June 2003	Victor Vianu A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML
Vol. 31, Number 4, December 2002	Martin Grohe: Parameterized Complexity for the Database Theorist
Vol. 31, Number 3, September 2002	Frank Neven : Automata Theory for XML Researchers
Vol. 31, Number 2, June 2002	Ronald Fagin: Combining Fuzzy Information: an Overview
Vol. 31, Number 1, March 2002	Dan Suciu: The XML Typechecking Problem
Vol. 30, Number 4, December 2001	Luca Cardelli: Describing Semistructured Data
Vol. 30, Number 1, March 2001	Peter Buneman, Wenfei Fan, Jerome Simeon, Scott Weinsten: Constraints for Semi-structured Data and XML
Vol. 29, Number 4, December 2000	Alon Halevy: Theory of Answering Queries Using Views
Vol. 29, Number 3, September 2000	Jan Van den Bussche: Constraint Databases: A Tutorial Introduction
Vol. 29, Number 1, March 2000	Guozhu Dong, Juanwen Su: Incremental Maintenance of Recursive Views Using Relational Calculus/SQL
Vol 28, Number 4, December 1999	Serge Abiteboul: On views and XML

Database Theory Column of SIGACT News (currently edited by Victor Vianu)

To get access to those articles on-line, which include reports on the PODS Conferences by PC chairs, one must be a member of SIGACT. Your library is likely to subscribe to SIGACT News. Below is the list of Database Theory Columns:

Vol. 36, Number 3, September 2005	Foto Afrati. Report on PODS 2005.
Vol. 31, Number 3, September 2000	Georg Gottlob. Report on PODS'2000.
Vol. 30, Number 4, December 1999	Leonid Libkin. Query languages with arithmetic and constraint databases.
Vol. 29, Number 4, December 1998	Dan Suciu. An overview of semistructured data.
Vol. 29, Number 3, September 1998	Jan Paredaens. Report on PODS'98.
Vol. 28, Number 3, September 1997	Meral Ozsoyoglu. Report on PODS'97.
Vol. 27, Number 4, December 1996	Richard Hull. Report on PODS'96.
Vol. 27, Number 3, September 1996	Mihalis Yannakakis. Perspectives on Database Theory (based on FOCS'95 invited talk).
Vol. 27, Number 2, June 1996	Stephane Grumbach, Leonid Libkin, Tova Milo, Limsoon Wong. Query languages for bags: expressive power and complexity
Vol. 26, Number 4, December 1995	Serge Abiteboul. Report on PODS'95.
Vol. 26, Number 3, September 1995	Christos Papadimitriou.  Database metatheory: Asking the big queries (based on PODS'95 invited talk).
Vol. 26, Number 2, June 1995	David Harel. Will I be pretty, will I be rich? Some thoughts on theory vs. practice in systems engineering (based on PODS'94 invited talk).

Conferences

If you organized a conference  or a workshop that overlaps in its technical scope with PODS, and you have a report on it, please send  e-mail with a URL to marenas@ing.puc.cl.

Links:

11th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2007). January 10-12, 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007). July 10-14, 2007, Wroclaw, Poland.