2013 summer party

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Before heading off for the summer holidays, we held a terrace party with some of our distinguished guests and friends!

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Bogdan Cautis to join the team in the fall 2013

Bogdan Cautis has been confirmed as a full professor at IUT Paris Sud starting from the fall 2013, and will join us in the OAK team.

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/06/13/bogdan-cautis-to-join-the-team-in-the-fall-2013/

XR Social Search project accepted

The “XR Social Search” project has been funded in the DigiCosme 2013 call. The project will fund a three-years Inria PhD scholarship, on social ranked search on semantically annotated documents. The project is by Bogdan Cautis, François Goasdoué and Ioana Manolescu. The PhD student (Raphael Bonaque) will join the team in the fall.

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/06/13/xr-social-search-project-digicosme/

Asterios Katsifodimos: Scalable View-based Techniques for Web Data : Algorithms and Systems

16.30, room 435, PCRI

Abstract
XML was recommended by W3C in 1998 as a markup language to be used by device- and system-independent methods of representing information. XML is nowadays used as a data model for storing and querying large volumes of data in database systems. In spite of significant research and systems development, many performance problems are raised by processing very large amounts of XML data.

Materialized views have long been used in databases to speed up queries. Materialized views can be seen as precomputed query results that can be re-used to evaluate (part of) another query, and have been a topic of intensive research, in particular in the context of relational data warehousing.

In this talk we will investigate the applicability of materialized view-based techniques to optimize the performance of Web data management tools, in particular in distributed settings, considering XML data and queries.

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/06/11/asterios-katsifodimos-scalable-view-based-techniques-for-web-data-algorithms-and-systems/

Meghyn Bienvenu: Assorted topics in ontology-based data access

14.00, room 455, PCRI

Abstract
In this talk, I will start by recalling the basics of ontology-based data access, focusing on ontologies formulated in lightweight description logics. Afterwards, I will give a brief description of my recent work on this topic, evoking the results in the following papers:

Tractable Approximations of Consistent Query Answering for Robust Ontology-based Data Access
with Riccardo Rosati (IJCAI’13)

Conjunctive Regular Path Queries in Lightweight Description Logics
with Magdalena Ortiz, Mantas Simkus (IJCAI’13)

Tractable Queries for Lightweight Description Logics
with Meghyn Bienvenu, Magdalena Ortiz, Mantas Simkus, Guohui Xiao (IJCAI’13)

First Order-Rewritability of Atomic Queries in Horn Description Logics
with Carsten Lutz, Frank Wolter (IJCAI’13)

Ontology-based Data Access: A Study through Disjunctive Datalog, CSP, and MMSNP
with Balder ten Cate, Carsten Lutz, and Frank Wolter (PODS’13)

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/06/07/meghyn-bienvenu-assorted-topics-in-ontology-based-data-access/

OakSad kick-off workshop

We have been in San Diego at the OAKSAD kick-off workshop at the end of May 2013. Unlike Paris which lives a revival of the Little Ice Age, San Diego was sunny, as can be easily seen below!

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VLDB Journal: Growing Triples on Trees: an XML-RDF Hybrid Model for Annotated Documents

Growing Triples on Trees: an XML-RDF Hybrid Model for Annotated Documents

by François Goasdoué, Konstantinos Karanasos, Yannis Katsis, Julien Leblay, Ioana Manolescu, Stamatis Zampetakis
In VLDB Journal: Special Issue on Structured, Social and Crowd-sourced Data on the Web

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/05/22/vldb-journal-xr/

Cédric du Mouza: AS-Index: Une structure efficace de recherche de texte

10.30, room 445, PCRI

Résumé
AS-Index est une nouvelle structure pour la recherche exacte de chaîne de caractères dans des bases de données textuelles résidant sur le disque. Il repose sur le hachage contrairement à d’autres solutions basées soit sur des arbres ou des treillis. Il indexe chaque n-gram de la base dans sa version initiale, alors qu’une variante autorise une indexation non-dense et un gain d’espace conséquent. La fonction de hachage utilise les signatures algébriques des n-grams. L’utilisation du hachage permet de garantir des temps constants de recherche pour des patterns recherchés de tailles quelconque, contrairement aux structures connues dont le coût est au mieux logarithmique. Le coût de stockage de l’AS-index est de 500-600% la taille des données, similaire aux solutions connues. Nos expériences et nos comparaisons avec des structures connues confirment le bon comportement de notre structure.

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/05/02/cedric-du-mouza-as-index-une-structure-efficace-de-recherche-de-texte/

TCS: Efficient asymmetric inclusion of regular expressions with interleaving and counting for XML type-checking

Efficient asymmetric inclusion of regular expressions with interleaving and counting for XML type-checking
by Dario Colazzo, Giorgio Ghelli, Luca Pardini and Carlo Sartiani
in Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/04/25/tcs-efficient-asymmetric-inclusion-of-regular-expressions-with-interleaving-and-counting-for-xml-type-checking/

ACM TODS: Algebraic Techniques for XML View Maintenance

“Algebraic Techniques for XML View Maintenance”, by Angela Bonifati, Martin Goodfellow, Ioana Manolescu and Domenica Sileo accepted for publication in ACM TODS

Permanent link to this article: https://team.inria.fr/oak/2013/04/19/acm-tods-algebraic-techniques-for-xml-view-maintenance/