Since its publication, Foundations of Databases has been the reference book for database theory. This ICDT/EDBT, we will be celebrating the (approximately) 25th birthday of Alice, the book’s heroine, and at the same time the (approximately) 65th birthday of the esteemed authors - the pillars of database theory.
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The algebra of binary relations, denoted here simply by RA, is one of the oldest logics, created by De Morgan,…
CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2019)
Lisbon, Portugal, March 26-28, 2019
http://edbticdt2019.inesc-id.pt/
About ICDT
ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory
(https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held…
We are urgently looking for two PhD candidates. The positions are 4 year and fully funded including social security. See:
https://www.uhasselt.be/vacancies_detail?taal=04&vacid=1583
22nd International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2019
Lisbon, Portugal, March 26-28, 2019, http://edbticdt2019.inesc-id.pt/
ICDT/EDBT Keynote Speakers
- Lise Getoor (UCSC, https://getoor.soe.ucsc.edu/home).
- Dan Olteanu (Oxford, http://www.cs.ox.ac.…
Below please find the list of accepted papers from the second submission round of PODS 2018 (in no particular order):
- Nicole Schweikardt, Luc Segoufin and Alexandre Vigny. Enumeration for FO queries over nowhere dense graphs
- Pankaj K. Agarwal, Kyle Fox, Kamesh Munagala, Abhinandan Nath, Jiangwei Pan and Erin Taylor. Subtrajectory clustering : models and algorithms
- Miguel Romero. The…
Prior to EDBT/ICDT 2018 in Vienna (http://edbticdt2018.at/) there will be a half-day event focusing on foundational challenges in DB and Knowledge management in honor of Georg Gottlob's contributions to these fields.
The event will feature accessible talks on a wide-range of topics by:
- Shqiponja Ahmetaj (TU Wien),
- Sihem Amer-Yahia (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble),
- Pablo Barceló (…
CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2019)
Lisbon, Portugal, around March 25th 2019 (tentative)
About ICDT
ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of data management theory
(https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology). The…
Below please find the list of accepted papers from the first submission round of PODS 2018 (in no particular order):
- Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Hung Ngo, Xuanlong Nguyen, Dan Olteanu and Maximilian Schleich. In-Database Learning with Sparse Tensors
- Matthias Niewerth and Luc Segoufin. Enumeration of MSO Queries on Strings with Constant Delay and Logarithmic Updates
- Wolfgang Fischl, Georg Gottlob and Reinhard…
We are happy to announce the accepted papers for ICDT 2018 (1st submission cycle):
- Pablo Barcelo, Miguel Romero and Thomas Zeume: A More General Theory of Static Approximations for Conjunctive Queries
- Elena Botoeva, Diego Calvanese, Benjamin Cogrel and Guohui Xiao: Expressivity and Complexity of MongoDB Queries
- Ahmet Kara and Dan Olteanu:…