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Peter Buneman Forum in Edinburgh

Ioana attended this great workshop in honor of Peter Buneman, on October 28-29, 2013. (all photos courtesy of Limsoon Wong, thank you Limsoon!) Oct 29 was a mini-provenance workshop on its own, with many high-quality talks. Other great  moments of the workshop (my personal pick, obviously very subjective): Dan Suciu’s rendition of Peter’s way of …

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ANR Project CBOD (Cloud-Based Organizational Design) accepted

The ANR project CBOD (Cloud-based Organizational Design) has been accepted by the ANR for a duration of 3 years. The project is coordinated by Ahmed Bounfour from the PESOR lab of U. Paris Sud; Telecom ParisTech is also a partner. N. Bidoit, B. Cautis, M. Herschel and I. Manolescu participate.

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OAK in BDA 2013

We are just back from BDA 2013, which was extremely well attended by the group! Some pictures below (thanks Zoi!) Alexandra presented “Warehousing RDF Graphs”: Stamatis presented “CliqueSquare: Efficient Hadoop-based RDF query processing“: Katerina presented “Answering Why-Not Questions”: and Asterios presented “Delta: Scalable Data Dissemination under Capacity Constraints” Unlike what the photo would have you …

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OAK in Fête de la Science 2013

Oak partipated in representing Inria Saclay at Fête de la Science 2013. Alexandra, Tushar, Stamatis, Katerina, Dario and Ioana took turns in presenting RDF graphs, views and warehouses to 400+ visitors!

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PVLDB 2014: Delta: Scalable Data Dissemination under Capacity Constraints

“Delta: Scalable Data Dissemination under Capacity Constraints”, by Konstantinos Karanasos, Asterios Katsifodimos and Ioana Manolescu has been accepted for publication in PVLDB 2014.

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Raphaël Bonaque: Trustworthiness Inference in Wikipedia

15.00, room 445, PCRI Abstract Wikipedia is one of the most used information source, however being freely editable raises concerns over the quality of this information. Using Wikitrust, a trust network over Wikipedia created by DBWeb, we will try and tackle one of the major challenges of the online encyclopedia : create a trustworthiness model …

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Stefano Ceri: Multi-Platform, Reactive Crowdsourcing

14.00, room 455, PCRI Abstract In recent years, we developed CrowdSearcher, which integrates a conceptual framework, a specification procedure and a reactive execution control environment for designing, deploying, and monitoring crowd-based applications on top of social systems, including social networks and crowdsourcing platforms. We show how social platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter, can be …

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Julien Leblay: Optimization Techniques for Semistructured Semantic Web Data

Julien defended his PhD thesis on Sept 27, 4 pm, room 435 Jury: François Goasdoué, Professor, Univ. Rennes 1 Ioana Manolescu, DR, Inria Saclay Bernd Amann, Professor, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie Stefano Ceri, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy David Gross-Amblard, Professor, Univ. de Rennes 1 Christine Froidevaux, Professor, Univ. Paris-Sud Abstract: Since the beginning …

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PEPS interdisciplinary project BizModel4Cloud accepted

This exploratory one-year collaborative research project was funded jointly by the CNRS and the IDEX Paris-Saclay. It is coordinated by Ahmed Bounfour from the PESOR lab of U. Paris-Sud, and involves I. Manolescu, N. Bidoit and B. Cautis from OAK as well as V. Fernandez from Telecom ParisTech. The project aims at developing a common …

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CIKM 2013 Tutorial: Entity Resolution in the Web of Data

The tutorial “Entity Resolution in the Web of Data” by Kostas Stefanidis, Vasilis Efthymiou, Melanie Herschel and Vassilis Christophides has been accepted for presentation at CIKM 2013.

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