[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 6, July 2017

Tue Jul 4 11:59:58 CEST 2017

PoDM Newsletter 6, July 2017

The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

HIGHLIGHTS 2017 -- FIFTH CONFRENCE ON HIGHLIGHTS OF LOGIC, GAMES AND AUTOMATA
ICDT 2018 – 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY 

JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

2-YEAR  POSTDOC OR PHD POSITION AT TU DORTMUND

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

RESEARCH DIRECTIONS FOR PRINCIPLES OF DATA MANAGEMENT
OPEN PROBLEMS IN DATABASE THEORY 

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS:

HIGHLIGHTS 2017 -- FIFTH CONFRENCE ON HIGHLIGHTS OF LOGIC, GAMES AND AUTOMATA 
Call for Participation
12-15 SEPTEMBER 2017, London, UK
http://highlights-conference.org

* HIGHLIGHTS 2017 is the fifth conference on Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata which aims at integrating the community working in these fields.  Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to Highlights conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. 

* The program will offer 59 contributed talks, three keynotes:

+ Mikolaj Bojanczyk, "Recognisability equals MSO definability for
graphs of bounded treewidth"
+ Sanjay Jain, "Quasi Polynomial and FPT algorithms for parity games"
+ Hung Ngo, "Shannon-type inequalities, submodular width, and
disjunctive datalog"

two special sessions organized by:
+ Patricia Bouyer, "Games played on graphs: quantitative games, games
with multi-objectives, non-zero sum games"
+ Alexandra Silva, "Model learning, automata and its applications"

and two tutorials
+ Veronique Cortier, "Verification of security protocols"
+ Damien Pous, 	"Coinduction up to and automata algorithms"

Full program can be found at: http://highlights-conference.org.

*  Registration possible until August 7, 2016

ICDT 2018 – 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY 
  Call for Papers
  March 26-29, 2018, Vienna, Austria
  http://icdt2018.technion.ac.il/
* ICDT is a series of scientific conferences on research of data management 
  theory, providing an international forum for the communication of advances 
  in the field. Since 2009, it is annually and jointly held with the EDBT 
  conference series. Starting in 2018, ICDT will have a Reach-Out track 
  dedicated to papers that suggest novel important directions for database 
  theory. The focus of this track in 2018 is on the topic of "Foundations 
  for Emerging Data Applications", targeting papers that lay the formal 
  foundations of novel data models and/or novel operations/analyses that are 
  driven by the plethora of data-centric applications in the era of Big Data.
* Every topic related to the principles of data management is relevant to 
  ICDT. Examples of relevant topics are: data mining; information extraction; 
  information retrieval; database aspects of machine learning; distributed 
  and parallel databases; cloud computing; connections between databases and 
  knowledge representation; graph databases; (semantic) Web data; Web 
  services; data streams; sketching; data-centric (business) process 
  management; workflows; data and knowledge integration and exchange; data 
  provenance; views and data warehouses; domain-specific databases; deductive 
  databases; data privacy and security; concurrency and recovery; data 
  models, design, structures, semantics; query languages and algorithms for 
  data management
* Important dates:  Second cycle abstract deadline: September 11, 2017; Full 
  paper deadline: September 18, 2017; Notification: November 27, 2017

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

2-YEAR  POSTDOC OR PHD POSITION AT TU DORTMUND
* Post-doc or PhD position
* Database Theory with a special focus on Dynamic Complexity Theory
* TU Dortmund, Germany, Dept. of Computer Science
* 2 years
* (The official opening will be available soon, this is just a pre-notice)
* The opening is in the LOGIDAC group, headed by Thomas
Schwentick. There are no teaching duties
* Contact: Thomas.Schwentick at tu-dortmund.de

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

RESEARCH DIRECTIONS FOR PRINCIPLES OF DATA MANAGEMENT
(SIGMOD Record Article)
https://sigmodrecord.org/2017/02/07/research-directions-for-principles-of-data-management-abridged/
*In April 2016, a community of researchers working in the area of Principles of Data Management (PDM) joined in a workshop at Dagstuhl. This was organized by the Executive Committee of PODS and the Council of ICDT. 
*The mission of the workshop was to identify and explore some of the most important research directions that have high relevance to society and to Computer Science today, and where the PDM community has the potential to make significant contributions.  
* The report organizes the identified research challenges for PDM around seven core themes, namely Managing Data at Scale, Multi-model Data, Uncertain Information, Knowledge-enriched Data, Data Management and Machine Learning, Process and Data, and Ethics and Data Management.
OPEN PROBLEMS IN DATABASE THEORY 

The first special session on open problems in database theory was held in Venice at ICDT 2017.
The slides are now available at the databasetheory.org website:
https://databasetheory.org/node/76
and include talks by Pablo Barcelo, Benny Kimelfeld, Paris Koutris,
Carsten Lutz, Jerzy Marcinkowski, and Thomas Schwentick.
Students looking for topics in database theory might be particularly
interested in viewing the slides.

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