Workshop agenda:
13:00-13:05: Welcome note (Verena Kantere, Prof. University of Ottawa)
13:05-13:30: Talk on: “Cost-Sensitive Data Acquisition for Incomplete Datasets” (Xiaohui Yu, Prof. York University)
13:30-13:50: Talk on “Robust and Explainable Cost Estimation” (Baoming Chang, PhD candidate University of Waterloo, MSc holder University of Ottawa)
13:50-14:10: Talk on: “Using Radial Basis Functions for Cardinality Estimation” (Nicholas Ostan, Researcher and Data Scientist IBM Db2; Calisto Zuzarte; Senior Technical Staff Member IBM Db2)
14:10-14:30: Talk on: “Robust Plan Evaluation Selection” (Amin Kamali, PhD holder University of Ottawa)
15:00-15:25: Talk on: “Guiding Expert tuning with eXplainable AI” (Andrew Chai, Phd candidate York University; Jarek Szlichta Prof York University)
15:25-16:25: Panel discussion on “The future of ML-based Query Processing and Optimization”: (Calisto Zuzarte, Xiaohui Yu, Jarek Szlichta, Andrew Chai, Nicholas Ostan, Verena Kantere)
16:25-16:30: Conclusion note and farewell (Verena Kantere)