From newsletter at databasetheory.org Tue Sep 3 14:37:17 2019 From: newsletter at databasetheory.org (newsletter at databasetheory.org) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 16:37:17 +0200 Subject: [Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 19, November 2019 Message-ID: PoDM Newsletter 19, September 2019 The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org TABLE OF CONTENTS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS ICDT 2020 - 23nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY CALL FOR PAPERS (Second submission cycle) OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS ICDT 2020 TEST OF TIME AWARD Call for nominations SPECIAL ISSUE ON ONTOLOGIES AND DATA MANAGEMENT German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (KI) CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS PHD STUDENT (RWTH AACHEN) PhD STUDENT POSITION (LABRI Bordeaux AND IRIF Paris) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS ICDT 2020 - 23nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY CALL FOR PAPERS (Second submission cycle) March 30 - April 2, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark https://diku-dk.github.io/edbticdt2020/ * 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. * Invited Speakers: Benny Kimelfeld, Jerzy Marcinkowski, and Juan Reutter * As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT 2020 has 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 (Second submission cycle): Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2019 Full paper submission deadline: September 23, 2019 Notification: December 5, 2019 Submissions via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS ICDT 2020 TEST OF TIME AWARD Call for nominations * We solicit nominations for the ICDT 2020 Test of Time Award for the ICDT 2010 paper that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice. The ICDT ToT award for 2020 will be presented during the EDBT/ICDT 2020 Joint Conference, March 30 - April 2, 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark. * The ICDT 2020 ToT Award Committee consists of Frank Neven, Jorge Perez, and Andreas Pieris. The committee will select the paper or a small number of papers from the ICDT 2010 proceedings that has had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contribution, or transfer to practice. * All papers are nominated by default, but the committee welcomes input from our community. Please feel free to nominate a paper if you think that it had a great impact, even if you have not checked whether it was "the best". Please respect the usual conflict-of-interest rules. * A list of eligible papers can be found here: https://dblp.org/db/conf/icdt/icdt2010 (invited papers are not eligible for the award). * Important Dates: Nomination submission with brief justification due: 1 Oct 2019 * Send to: frank.neven at uhasselt.be SPECIAL ISSUE ON ONTOLOGIES AND DATA MANAGEMENT German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (KI) CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS * https://link.springer.com/journal/13218 *The German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (KI – Künstliche Intelligenz) plans a special issue on Ontologies and Data Management (ODM), which will provide an opportunity to attract the attention of the broader audience to research on reasoning in the presence of possibly large / heterogeneous / incomplete data. The special issue is envisioned to feature technical contributions, system descriptions, reports on current or recent projects, and PhD or habilitation theses. *SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of ontologies and data management that are accessible to a broad audience, including but not limited to: - Query answering: standard semantics, bag semantics, inconsistency-tolerant semantics - Further inference tasks in the presence of data: learning, materialization, non-monotonic reasoning - Decidability and complexity analyses - Ontology languages and extensions: description logics (DLs), rule-based languages, first-order logic - Combinations of ontology languages with other formalisms such as temporal logic, probabilities, action formalisms - Applications related to ODM - Systems and tools related to ODM *GUEST EDITORS: Thomas Schneider (thomas.schneider at uni-bremen.de) and Mantas Šimkus (simkus at dbai.tuwien.ac.at) *SUBMISSION TYPES We invite the following types of contributions (recommended page numbers refer to the two-column Springer style, which can be found at https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/13218?detailsPage=pltci_1060171 under the field “Text”): - technical papers (6-10 pages) - system descriptions (4-6 pages) - project reports (4-6 pages) - abstracts of PhD or habilitation theses (2-4 pages) - discussions (personal opinions about topics relevant to ODM with the intent to start, continue, or complete discussions; 4-8 pages) *IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due 31 October, 2019 (technical papers); 30 November, 2019 (remaining types of submissions) Notification in early January 2020; Final versions due 25 January, 2020 *SUBMISSION Please contact the guest editors for more information regarding the submission system. *ABOUT THE KI JOURNAL The Scientific journal “KI – Künstliche Intelligenz” is the official journal of the division for artificial intelligence within the "Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V." (GI) – the German Informatics Society – with contributions from throughout the field of artificial intelligence. The journal presents all relevant aspects of artificial intelligence – the fundamentals and tools, their use and adaptation for scientific purposes, and applications which are implemented using AI methods – and thus provides the reader with the latest developments in and well-founded background information on all relevant aspects of artificial intelligence. For all members of the AI community the journal provides quick access to current topics in the field and promotes vital interdisciplinary interchange. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOB ANOUNCEMENTS PHD STUDENT * Database Theory * RWTH Aachen University, Germany * 2-4 years * Link: http://www.lics.rwth-aachen.de/cms/LICS/Der-Lehrstuhl/Stellenangebote/~czdxn/PhD-Position-in-Database-Theory/ * The opening is in the group of Martin Grohe. It involves research in the project "Quantitative Reasoning About Database Queries" lead jointly by Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen) and Benny Kimelfeld (Technion). * Contact: Martin Grohe RWTH Aachen University, Dept. of Computer Science grohe at informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PhD STUDENT POSITION * Database Theory and Logic * joint between LaBRI (Bordeaux, FR) and IRIF (Paris, FR) * 3 years * Link: https://quid.labri.fr/documents/phd.html * The IRIF lab in Paris and the LABRI lab in Bordeaux, France have funding for a co-supervised PhD studentship in database theory starting in 2019. The PhD topic is in the area of foundations of data management, focusing on querying inconsistent data. This PhD topic is part of a larger projet QUID (Efficient Querying for Incomplete and Inconsistent Data), funded by the French research agency ANR. The project involves researchers from two other research labs in France: École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and the Institut Gaspard Monge (Marne-la-Vallée). Candidates should have a strong background in theoretical computer science, preferably in automata, logic, verification, or finite model theory. Some prior knowledge of database theory and systems is also a plus. ----------------------------------------------------------- The next issue of this newsletter is scheduled for early November 2019. Please submit your announcements to newsletter-owner at databasetheory.org until October 30. Please follow the formatting instructions at databasetheory.org/newsletter. Past issues of the newsletter can be found at databasetheory.org/newsletter. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: