CEDAR was very well represented at this year’s edition of VLDB in India. TATOOINE, the mixed instance querying, lightweight integration architecture for data journalism was shown in the demo session by Raphaël, Tien, Ioana and Oscar, while Damian presented his paper on “Teaching an RDBMS about ontological constraints”. Continue reading
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. 
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!). 
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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. 
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! 
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Many team members and their significant others enjoyed another nice dinner! 🙂 
That’s probably it folks for 2015 — best wishes for the next year!
Merry Christmas (take one 🙂 we will probably do it again before the year is actually over 🙂 ) 
OAK has presented some of their research at the Big Data Business Convention in HEC on Nov 24-25, 2015. Stamatis has shown CliqueSquare, and we have talked of many other projects, including graph and RDF analytics and fact-checking! 
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