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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EDBT Summer School 2017: Adding Value to Data
September 4th-8th, 2017
Genova Nervi, Italy
http://edbtschool2017.dibris.unige.it
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2017
ADDITIONAL STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE THANKS TO NEO4J SPONSORSHIP
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The EDBT Summer School brings together leading researchers recognized as experts in their fields and provides participants the opportunity to gain deeper insight into current research trends in the database area.

In 2017, the theme of the school will be 'Adding Value to Data'. The scientific topics will cover principles and solutions for adding value to data, that is, for supporting users in discovering, extracting, integrating, accessing and interpreting the data of relevance to their questions, while taking into account the role of the crowd and the impact of dirty data as well as the adoption of responsible data management and analysis processes. The school will be organized around 7 main themes, listed below.

The 2017 summer school follows the successful structure of previous EDBT schools: stimulating lectures by leading researchers in the field (two for each main theme), group work on assignment, and a lively scientific and social program.

We invite advanced graduate students, postdocs, and other academic and industrial researchers interested in an intensive study of the state-of-the-art in adding value to data to participate in the summer school. Application and registration details can be found on the school website. 

Successful summer school participants will receive on request a certificate about course activity equivalent to 2 ETCS. Some Universities may accept such certificates towards the coursework required for PhD programs (inquire with your university/PhD School/Advisor).

LECTURES AND SPEAKERS

* Crowd Data Sourcing
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel

* Data Quality
Floris Geerts, Antwerp University, Belgium
Melanie Herschel, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Data Integration
Alvaro A A Fernandes, University of Manchester, UK
Domenico Lembo, Roma La Sapienza University, Italy

* Query Answering
Pablo Barcelo', Universidad de Chile
Paolo Guagliardo, University of Edinburgh, UK

* Reasoning about Data^
Andreas Pieris, University of Oxford, UK
Emanuel Sallinger, University of Oxford, UK

* Data, Responsibly - Fairness, Neutrality and Transparency in Data Analysis^
Serge Abiteboul, Inria, ENS Paris, France
Julia Stoyanovich, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

* Intelligent Web Data Extraction^
Tim Furche, University of Oxford, UK
Paolo Merialdo, Roma Tre University, Italy

^This course is part of an innovative special AI&DB track for which extra funding has been applied for

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for application: May 31, 2017
Notification of acceptance for participation and grants: June 1st, 2017
Deadline for registration: July 1st, 2017
EDBT Summer School: September 4th-8th, 2017

ORGANIZATION

CHAIRS
Barbara Catania, University of Genoa, Italy
Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford, UK
Giovanna Guerrini, University of Genoa, Italy
Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Paolo Atzeni, Roma Tre University, Italy
Barbara Catania, University of Genoa, Italy
Christine Collet, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
Torsten Grust, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Giovanna Guerrini, University of Genoa, Italy
Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Wim Martens, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Joachim W. Schmidt, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Marc H. Scholl, University of Konstanz, Germany

LOCAL ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
Laura Di Rocco, University of Genoa, Italy
Francesco De Fino, University of Genoa, Italy
Beyza Yaman, University of Genoa, Italy