Every year, PODS features 2 or 3 tutorials. Short abstracts of the tutorials usually appear in the Proceedings. Here we provide links to full versions - either full papers of slides of the tutorials (if they are available).

1993

• Jan Chomicki: Temporal Query Languages: a Survey
• Alberto Mendelzon: Belief Revision Theory and Knowledge Base Updates

1994

• Rakesh Agrawal: Database Mining
• Gaston H. Gonnet: Text Dominated Databases, Theory, Practice and Experience
• Val Tannen: Languages for Collection Types

1995

• Nathan Goodman: Research Problems in Genome Databases
• Paris C. Kanellakis: Constraint Programming and Database Languages
• Phokion G. Kolaitis: Combinatorial Games In Database Theory

1996

• Max J. Egenhofer: Geographic Database Systems: Issues and Research Needs
• Udi Manber: Future Directions and Research Problems in the World Wide Web

1997

• Peter Buneman: Semistructured Data
• Richard Hull: Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases: A Theoretical Perspective
• Arie Shoshani: OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences

1998

• Surajit Chaudhuri: An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems
• Judith Klavans: Data Bases in Digital Libraries: Where Computer Science and Information Management Meet
• Jeffrey Scott Vitter: External Memory Algorithms

1999

• Jon M. Kleinberg, Andrew Tomkins: Applications of Linear Algebra in Information Retrieval and Hypertext Analysis
• J. D. Tygar: Open Problems in Electronic Commerce

2000

• Ashish Gupta: Entrepreneurship for Information Systems Researchers
• Moshe Y. Vardi: Constraint Satisfaction and Database Theory

2001

• Martin Grohe: The Parameterized Complexity of Database Queries
• F. T. Leighton: The Challenges of Delivering Content on the Internet.

2002

• Maurizio Lenzerini: Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective
• Dennis Shasha, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Rosalba Giugno: Algorithmics and Applications of Tree and Graph Searching

2003

• Rakesh Agrawal: Privacy in data systems

2004

• Monika Rauch Henzinger: The Past, Present and Future of Web Information Retrieval
• Thomas Schwentick: Trees, Automata and XML

2005

• Johannes Gehrke: Models and Methods for Privacy-preserving Data Publishing and Analysis
• Monica S. Lam, John Whaley, V. Benjamin Livshits, Michael C. Martin, Dzintars Avots, Michael Carbin, Christopher Unkel: Context-sensitive Program Analysis as Database Queries

2006

• Joseph Y. Halpern: From Statistical Knowledge Bases to Degrees of Belief: An Overview
• Christoph Koch: Processing Queries on Tree-structured Data Efficiently
• Enrico Franconi, Sergio Tessaris: The logic of RDF and SPARQL

2007

• Nicole Schweikardt: Machine Models and Lower Bounds for Query Processing
• Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Stijn Vansummeren: A Crash Course on Database Queries

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