The Database Group at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, is recruiting a post-doctoral researcher. The position is open to database researchers with a promising publication record who have a PhD, or are close to completing their PhD, in computer science or closely related field. A strong background in databases, machine learning, and theoretical computer science (particularly algorithms, complexity theory, and logic), as well as skills in systems…
A blog on the Theoretical Foundations of Data Management
24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2021)
Cyprus, March 23-26, 2021
* About ICDT
ICDT is an international conferences series that addresses the principles and theory of data management. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT, the international conference on extending database technology. See also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages.
* Broadening Scope
As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT…
The newly released pledge No free view? No review! (not to be confused with the TCS4F pledge from the previous post) is a way for researchers to publicly express their preference for an open access publishing model. The signatories pledge that they will avoid performing peer review work for journals and conferences that do not put online the research that they publish.…
TCS4F is an initiative by theoretical computer scientists who are concerned about that other major crisis of our time: climate change. We anticipate that the climate crisis will be a defining challenge of the decades to come, that it will require major changes at all levels of society to mitigate the harm that it will cause, and that researchers in theoretical computer science and in database theory, like all other actors, must be part of the solution and not…
* PODS Call For Submissions *
The Principles of Database Systems (PODS) symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of data management, traditional or non-traditional (see https://databasetheory.org/PODS).
** Topics of Interest **
For the 40th…
We invite applications for a post-doctoral position at the Data and Knowledge Laboratory of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel). The successful applicant is expected to carry out research within the project "Quantitative Reasoning About Database Queries" lead jointly by Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen) and Benny Kimelfeld (Technion).
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Due to the situation regarding COVID-19, the AMW organization has decided to postpone the event to the second semester of 2020. Yet, it all depends on how the situation evolves. The final decisions will be informed during July 2020.
Background
The Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW) brings…
As researchers, our job is to develop new knowledge and share it with the world. Currently, the main way to do this is research articles. Thus, we are all contributing to a vast corpus of scholarly literature, which contains millions of papers across decades of research in all domains of human knowledge.
The point of this article is to argue that this precious resource is not currently used to its full potential. The scientific corpus can only be navigated…
24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2021)
Cyprus, March 23-26, 2021
* About ICDT
ICDT is an international conferences series that addresses the principles and theory of data management. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with EDBT, the international conference on extending database technology. See also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages.
* Broadening Scope
As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT…
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
PODS 2020 TEST-OF-TIME AWARD
Nominations are solicited for the PODS 2020 Test of Time Award. The
award will recognize a paper or a small number of papers published in
the PODS 2010 proceedings that had the most impact in terms of
research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening
decade.
All papers are nominated by default, but the committee welcomes input…