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 (Universidad de Chile),
- Christoph Koch (EPF Lausanne),
- Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz/IBM Research - Almaden),
- Andreas Pieris (University of Edinburgh),
- Francesco Scarcello (Università della Calabria),
- Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund)
An archive of the event is available at http://dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ggevent-2018/
This includes details of the talks. The pdf versions are also available below:
- Shqiponja Ahmetaj and Andreas Pieris
On the Succinctness of Query Rewriting for Datalog+/- https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/ahmetajpieris_0.pdf - Sihem Amer-Yahia
Human-in-the-loop Personalization
https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/SihemAY-GeorgGottlob2018.pdf - Pablo Barcelo
What are the Limits for Efficient Conjunctive Query Evaluation in the Presence of Constraints? https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/barcelo.pdf - Christoph Koch
Abstraction vs. Performance in Database Systems https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/20180325ggws.pdf - Phokion Kolaitis
The Quest for Definitive Results: Some Examples in Georg Gottlob's Work https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/kolaitis_1.pdf - Francesco Scarcello
From Hypertree Width to Submodular Width and Data-dependent Structural Decompositions
https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/Scarcello%20-%20Gottlob%20event%20-%20icdt%202018_0.pdf - Thomas Schwentick
Algorithmic Metatheorems for Second-Order Logic
https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/blog_attach/schwentick.pdf