Just came back from a visit to Flavio Ferrarotti in Hagenberg, Austria. Hagenberg is an inspirational mixture of a traditional countryside village and a high-tech software campus. Flavio works in finite model…
A blog on the Theoretical Foundations of Data Management
For the first time in PODS, there was a session devoted to some papers that were published in this conference and have been very influential. In PODS 2016 this session included two talks:
- Optimal Score Aggregation Algorithms by Ron Fagin
- Hypertree Decompositions: Question and Answers by Georg Gottlob
The first talk was about the paper [1] published in PODS 2001, while the …
SIGMOD Record now accepts nominations for papers on data management that you think deserve to be placed in the spotlight. We should nominate theory papers from ICDT as well as from PODS! I just submitted the…
On Sunday 26 June 2016, the 35th edition of the annual ACM symposium on the theoretical foundations of data management, known as PODS, will kick off. PODS is held in its usual constellation, side-by-side with our friends and colleagues who do…
Welcome to this community blog on the principles of data management. In the IT development world, "database theory" refers to an established set of normal forms for designing relational database schemas. In the computer science research world, however, database theory has been growing for decades as a lively and active field of research in computer science. The two annual flagship conferences, PODS and…