[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 19, November 2019

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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)

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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

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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.

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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.

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