[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 21, March 2020
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PoDM Newsletter 21, March 2020
The newsletter on Principles of Data Management from databasetheory.org
(I hope this finds you well in this terrible time.
This newsletter has a hard time of its own: in January there was no
newsletter due to a stupid mistake on my side. Early March it did not
get through due to a shutdown of the network of ULB in Brussels (not
related to Corona but to hackers). Special thanks to Stijn Vansummeren
for bringing databasetheory.org back.
Take care, as good as you can, many greetings and wishes from Thomas Schwentick)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2021)
Call for papers (First submission cycle)
AMW 2020 - 14TH ALBERTO MENDELZON INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONS OF DATA MANAGEMENT
Call for Papers
29TH EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2021)
First Call for Papers
JOB ANOUNCEMENTS
RESEARCH PROFESSOR AT HASSELT UNIVERSITY (BELGIUM)
PHD AND POSTDOC POSITIONS AT TU Wien (AUSTRIA)
PHD AND POSTDOC POSITIONS AT TECHNION, HAIFA (ISRAEL)
AWARDS
VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2020
Call for (self) nominations
ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Call for Nominations
OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS
NEW BLOG POST: Improving Scholarly Publishing in Computer Science: Why and How
ARTICLE ANNOUNCEMENT: "Constant Delay Enumeration for Conjunctive Queries - a Tutorial"
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2021)
Call for papers (First submission cycle)
Cyprus, March 23-26, 2021
* 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 also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages.
* As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT 2021 will continue to 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. Particularly welcome are contributions that connect data management to theoretical computer science, and those that connect database theory and database practice. 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):
April 2, 2020: Abstract submission
April 9, 2020: Paper submission
June 5, 2020: Notification
Submissions via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2021.
(The following is outdated due to the above mentioned delay, but it
might still be interesting to see)
AMW 2020 - 14TH ALBERTO MENDELZON INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONS OF DATA MANAGEMENT
Call for Papers
May 18-22, 2020, Cusco, Peru
https://amw2020.org/
* The Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW) brings together top researchers from all over the world, creating the opportunity to discuss and spread research results relating to data management. AMW is a way to honor the memory of Alberto Mendelzon and places emphasis on promoting international research ties with Latin America in these areas. We solicit research papers on the relevant topics that we list below.
* The co-located AMW Summer School provides an opportunity for students (graduate and undergraduate), researchers, and practitioners, to attend tutorials from internationally-renowned speakers, and to interact with the research community. Students from Latin America are particularly encouraged to attend. (Please check the homepage for news of travel grants.)
* Keynote Speakers: Peter Boncz, Angela Bonifati, Bill Howe, Jorge Pérez.
* Summer-School Speakers: Leopoldo Bertossi, Marco Calautti, Fatma Ozcan, Jorge Pérez.
* Important Dates: Abstracts due: March 8th, 2020; Paper due: March 15th, 2020; Notifications due: April 15th; Camera-ready due: April 30th; School: May 18th-19th.
29TH EACSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE LOGIC (CSL 2021)
First Call for Papers
January 25-28, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csl2021
Paper submission: July 1, 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: 1 July 2020
Notifications: 25 September 2020
* PC Chairs
Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Jean Goubault-Larrecq, ENS Paris-Saclay, France
* Organizing committee
Alex Simpson, Andrej Bauer, Daniel Ahman,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Publication
CSL 2021 proceedings will be published by Leibniz
International Proceedings in Informatics
* Venue
Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
csl2021 at easychair.org
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JOB ANOUNCEMENTS
RESEARCH PROFESSOR AT HASSELT UNIVERRSITY, BELGIUM
* Research Professor
* Data Management and Data Wrangling
* Hasselt University, Belgium
* Level: associate / full professor
* Link: https://www.uhasselt.be/vacancies_detail?taal=04&vacid=1777&ref=1
* The opening is in the Data Science Institute @ UHasselt
* Contact:
Frank Neven (frank.neven at uhasselt.be)
PHD AND POSTDOC POSITIONS AT TU Wien (AUSTRIA)
* Database and Artificial Intelligence Group
* We invite highly motivated applicants interested both in the theory and practice of Description Logics,
Rule-based Languages, Semantic Web, Reasoning about Actions and Change, Databases, Verification, and Artificial Intelligence.
* We are seeking to strengthen our research teams in two foundational research projects [1, 2] funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and the industry-oriented project [3] funded by the Vienna Business Agency.
* Depending on research tasks, funding is available for up to 3.5 years.
* PhD students can join the LogiCS doctoral program [4], which offers top research together with a stimulating and supportive environment.
* Vienna is a beautiful city that offers excellent quality of life, while TU Wien is a great place for professional growth (e.g., the Austrian Science Fund offers multiple funding opportunities for young researchers to advance their independent scientific careers).
* Interested candidates should contact Mantas Simkus (simkus at dbai.tuwien.ac.at).
* Candidates interested in the industry-oriented project [3], which is in cooperation with Campfire Solutions and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), can directly apply to jobs at campfire-solutions.com.
* LINKS
[1] http://www.simkus.info/projects/fwf-project-p30360/
[2] http://www.simkus.info/projects/fwf-project-p30873/
[3] https://www.campfire-solutions.com/job-offer-researcher-m-w-d/
[4] https://logic-cs.at
PHD AND POSTDOC POSITIONS AT TECHNION, HAIFA (ISRAEL)
* Research within the project "Quantitative Reasoning About Database Queries" lead jointly by Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen) and Benny Kimelfeld (Technion).
* Background in databases, machine learning, and theoretical computer science (particularly algorithms, complexity theory and logic).
* Contact:
Benny Kimelfeld
bennyk at cs.technion.ac.io
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AWARDS
VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2020
Call for (self) nominations
http://logic-cs.at/vcla-awards-2020
Awards for outstanding Master and Bachelor Theses conferred between 15.11.2018 and 31.12.2019
in the field s of Computational Logic, Databases, Artificial Intelligence, Verification Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Formal Methods for Security ad Privacy.
* Two categories:
- Outstanding Master Thesis Award
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (Bachelor)
*The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2018 and December 31st, 2019 (inclusive).
* The Outstanding Master Thesis Award is accompanied by a prize of € 1200, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award by a prize of € 800.
Additionally, the winners will be invited (flight+lodging) to present their work at an award ceremony in Vienna.
* Important dates:
Submission deadline: March 25, 2020 (anywhere on Earth), Notification of decision: end of June 2020
* Committee chairs 2020: Robert Ganian, Magdalena Ortiz, Revantha Ramanayake (TU Wien).
* See http://logic-cs.at/vcla-awards-2020 for details.
Please send all inquiries to award (AT) logic-cs.at
ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
*** Deadline postponed: 1 July 2020 ***
* INTRODUCTION
Nominations are now invited for the 2020 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 1.1.2018 and 31.12.2019
are eligible for nomination for the award.
* PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD
The 2020 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) in
Ljubljana at CSL '21, the annual conference of the EACSL, January
25-28, 2021. 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, 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);
* Prakash Panangaden (McGill University);
* Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL;
* Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL;
* Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative.
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 2020 Submission
** Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments
The deadline for submission is 1 July 2020.
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OTHER ANOUNCEMENTS
NEW BLOG POST: Improving Scholarly Publishing in Computer Science: Why and How
A new article on the Database Theory blog
<https://databasetheory.org/node/107> explores ways in which we could
improve scholarly publishing in computer science, by doing innovative
research using the corpus of academic papers, and lifting the obstacles
that makes this corpus difficult to access and use. To give feedback or
discuss these topics, the article comes with a mailing-list
<https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/cs-publishing> to which you are
invited to subscribe.
ARTICLE ANNOUNCEMENT:
"Constant Delay Enumeration for Conjunctive Queries - a Tutorial"
by Christoph Berkholz, Fabian Gerhardt, and Nicole Schweikardt
ACM SIGLOG News, January 2020, Vol. 7, No. 1, pages 4-33
* This tutorial provides precise statements and detailed, self-contained
proofs of the fundamental results on constant-delay enumeration for
conjunctive queries (upper bounds, conditional lower bounds,
characterisations of acyclic CQs and of free-connex acyclic CQs).
* https://siglog.org/newsletter-january-2020/
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