PVLDB 2016: “Teaching an RDBMS about ontological constraints”
“Teaching an RDBMS about ontological constraints” by Damian Bursztyn, François Goasdoué and Ioana Manolescu has been accepted for publication in PVLDB 2016.
“Teaching an RDBMS about ontological constraints” by Damian Bursztyn, François Goasdoué and Ioana Manolescu has been accepted for publication in PVLDB 2016.
Šejla Čebirić received The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) which aims to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, and become active role models and leaders in this field. The scholars will attend the EMEA Anita Borg Scholars’ Retreat …
The paper “On the Complexity of Universality for Partially Ordered NFAs” by Markus Krötzsch, Tomas Masopust and Michaël Thomazo has been accepted for publication at the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016) conference.
Damian presented the demo “Flexible Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue” at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering held in Helsinki from May 16 to 20.
The demonstration “Mixed-instance querying: a lightweight integration architecture for data journalism” by Raphaël Bonaque, Bogdan Cautis, François Goasdoué, Javier Letelier, Ioana Manolescu, Oscar Mendoza, Swen Ribeiro, Xavier Tannier and Michaël Thomazo has been accepted for publication at VLDB 2016.
At the last week Tech & Check Conference of the Duke University in North Carolina, Michaël Thomazo presented the FactMinder, our system for archiving, annotating, and querying semantic-rich Web content. The event aimed at bringing together journalists (mostly fact-checkers, from Factcheck, Politifact, Full Fact, Chequeado,…) and computer scientists in order to have a clearer …
In March, we attended the EDBT 2016 conference held in Bordeaux, where Raphael presented his paper “Social, structured and semantic search”. Bordeaux is rightfully renowned for gastronomy, which we dutifully checked for ourselves. As for the wine, Damian has his favorite addresses already (and shares them, too!). Continue reading
The paper “Expressivity of Datalog Variants — Completing the Picture” by Sebastian Rudolph and Michaël Thomazo has been accepted for publication in IJCAI 2016.
After the EDBT 2016, prof. Diego Calvanese from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano visited us to hold a seminar on Data-centric dynamic systems (DCDSs) and decidability of verification of expressive (first-order) temporal properties over such systems. The seminar was followed by a degustation of French wine and cheese. Continue reading
On February 18, Swen gathered us around delicious home-made cookies and drinks for his farewell from the team. François visited us from Lannion on this occasion, so the smoked whisky also made its first appearance in a CEDAR event 🙂 We wish Swen best of luck in his PhD! Continue reading