From newsletter at databasetheory.org Sun Mar 3 18:40:17 2019 From: newsletter at databasetheory.org (newsletter at databasetheory.org) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 19:40:17 +0100 Subject: [Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 16, March 2019 Message-ID: PoDM Newsletter 16, March 2019 The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org TABLE OF CONTENTS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS EDBT SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 Extracting Hidden Knowledge from Heterogeneous Massive Data Call for Applications ICDT 2020 - 23nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY Call for Papers (First submission cycle) EDBT/ICDT'19 EVENT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE! Call for Participation 28TH EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2020) First Call for Papers OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS 2019 ACM PODS ALBERTO O. MENDELZON TEST-OF-TIME AWARD Announcement of the winners ACKERMANN AWARD 2019 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Final Call for Nominations --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS EDBT SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 Extracting Hidden Knowledge from Heterogeneous Massive Data Call for Applications 2 - 6 September 2019 Saint Germain aux Monts d’Or, in the surroundings of Lyon (France) https://edbtschool2019.liris.cnrs.fr * The theme for the 14th EDBT Summer School is "Extracting Hidden Knowledge from Heterogeneous Massive Data". This five-day summer school follows the successful tradition of previous EDBT schools: stimulating lectures by leading researchers in the field, competitive research challenges to build upon and extend the lectures, and a lively scientific and social program. * Speakers and lecture topics: - “Mining Temporal Networks”. Aristides Gionis, with Polina Rozenshtein. Aalto University - Finland. - “Data Curation and Machine Learning”. Ihab Ilyas. University of Waterloo - Canada. - “Information extraction ​with document spanners and Big data analytics with logical formalisms”. Benny Kimelfeld. Technion - Israel. - “Ontologies and Ontology Reasoning for Property Graphs”. Markus Krötzsch. University of Dresden - Germany. - “Data Curation and Integration at the time of Open Data”. Renée Miller. Northeastern University - USA - “Entity Resolution for Large-Scale Data”. Erhard Rahm, with Eric Peukert . University of Leipzig - Germany. * Abstracts of the lectures can be consulted at https://edbtschool2019.liris.cnrs.fr/lectures.html * We invite advanced graduate students, postdocs, and other academic and industrial researchers interested in an intensive study of the state-of-the-art techniques for managing data heterogeneity and extracting knowledge from such data to participate in the summer school. Application and registration details can be found on the school website.: https://edbtschool2019.liris.cnrs.fr. * Participants will receive on request a certificate stating that the course activity is equivalent to 2 ETCS. Some universities may accept such a certificates towards the coursework required for their PhD program. The decision on the recognition of the ECTS depends exclusively on the participant's institute. * Important dates: - Deadline for application. 31 May 2019 - Notification of acceptance. 15 June 2019 - Deadline for registration. 1 July 2019 - Summer school. September 2nd - September 6th, 2019 (arrival on Sunday evening, September 1) ICDT 2020 - 23nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY Call for Papers (First submission cycle) March 30 - April 2, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark https://databasetheory.org/node/97 * 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 https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages. * As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT 2020 will have a Reach Out Track that calls for - novel formal frameworks or directions for database theory and/or - connections between principles of data management and other communities. * Every topic related to the principles of data management is relevant to ICDT. Examples of relevant topics include - Data mining, information extraction, information retrieval, and database aspects of machine learning - Data models, design, structures, semantics, query languages, and algorithms for data management - Distributed and parallel databases, cloud computing - Databases and knowledge representation - Graph databases, (semantic) Web data, and Web services - Data streams and sketching - Data-centric (business) process management and workflows - Data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views, and data warehouses - Domain-specific databases (multimedia, scientific, spatial, etc) - Data privacy and security, concurrency, and recovery * Important dates (First submission cycle): Abstract submission deadline: March 27, 2019 Full paper submission deadline: April 3, 2019 Notification: May 29, 2019 Submissions via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2020 EDBT/ICDT'19 EVENT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE! Since its publication, Foundations of Databases has been the reference book for database theory. This ICDT/EDBT, we will be celebrating the (approximately) 25th birthday of Alice, the book’s heroine, and at the same time the (approximately) 65th birthday of the esteemed authors - the pillars of database theory. For full details and registration see: https://alice.imfd.cl/2018/ * When and where: Monday, March 25th, 2019, 18:00 - 19:15. EDBT/ICDT'19 * Program: 18:00 - 18:45: All About Alice. Serge Abiteboul, Rich Hull, Victor Vianu 18:45 - 19:15 The Voice of the Future. Wim Martens, Liat Peterfreund * Organizers: Pablo Barcelo (DCC, University of Chile & IMFD Chile) Tova Milo (School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University) * Local arrangements: Helena Galhardas (IST, University of Lisbon) 28TH EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2020) First Call for Papers January 13-16, 2020, Barcelona, spain https://easychair.org/cfp/CSL2020 Paper submission: July 4, 2020 * AIM AND SCOPE Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 4 July 2019 Notifications: 14 October 2019 * PC Chairs Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Anca Muscholl, University of Bordeaux, France * Organizing committee Albert Atserias, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Juan Carlos Martínez, University of Barcelona, Spain * Publication CSL 2020 proceedings will be published by Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics * Venue The conference will be held in the University of Barcelona, Spain. * Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC co-chairs: Maribel Fernandez Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Anca Muscholl anca at labri.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOB ANOUNCEMENTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS 2019 ACM PODS ALBERTO O. MENDELZON TEST-OF-TIME AWARD Announcement of the winners * The ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award is awarded every year to a paper or a small number of papers published in the PODS proceedings ten years prior that had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade. The award was established in 2007 and was awarded for the first time in 2008. More information about the award is available at http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/acm-pods-alberto-o.-mendelzon-test-of-time-award * It is our great pleasure to announce the winner of the 2019 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award: * General Datalog-Based Framework for Tractable Query Answering over Ontologies by Andrea Cali, Georg Gottlob and Thomas Lukasiewicz * CITATION: This paper introduces and studies the Datalog+- framework for query answering over ontologies, which subsequently became highly influential in both the database and knowledge representation communities. Its main contribution is an in-depth study of the data complexity of Datalog+-, and several extensions and restrictions tailored to ontologies. The paper identifies a tractable family of Datalog+- formalisms based on linear tuple-generating dependencies, that generalize description logics of the DL-Lite family. Extensions with keys and stratified negation are also studied. Other technical results of the paper concerning the chase have been fundamental to further developments in the field. The paper received over 450 citations, evidencing its significant impact. * The award will be presented to the authors during the 2019 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on June 30 - July 5, 2019. * Congratulations to this year's winners! * Jianwen Su, Dirk Van Gucht, Victor Vianu (chair) ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award Committee for 2019 ACKERMANN AWARD 2019 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Final Call for Nominations Deadline: 1 April 2019 * INTRODUCTION Nominations are now invited for the 2019 Ackermann Award. * ELIGIBILITY PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2017 and 31.12.2018 are eligible for nomination for the award. * PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD The 2019 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2020, the annual conference of the EACSL, 13-16 January 2020, in Barcelona. The award consists of a certificate, an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings, an invitation to the winner to publish the thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS, and financial support to attend the conference. * JURY The jury consists of: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Michael Benedikt (Oxford University); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay); * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University); * Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), ACM SigLog representative; * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. * WHAT TO SUBMIT The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit 1. the thesis (ps or pdf file); 2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file); 3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters by other senior researchers (in English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick (thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de); 4. a short CV of the candidate; 5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period. * HOW TO SUBMIT The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman of the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de, with ** Subject: Ackermann Award 2019 Submission ** Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments The deadline for submission is 1 April 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------- The next issue of this newsletter is scheduled for early March 2019. 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