EDBT Summer School 2017: Adding Value to Data
A call for participation in the EDBT Summer School 2017: Adding Value to Data
This may be of interest to PGR students in the School, particularly those whose research is data-centric or data-driven. The whole event is an outreach aspect of the VADA project, an EPSRC-funded 5-year programme grant that is a collaboration between the schools of computer science in Oxford, Manchester and Edinburgh. The call is attached below. There may be funding support from the organizers, to whom all questions should be addressed. The deadline is this coming week, so, please, hurry if you wish to take part.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EDBT Summer School 2017: Adding Value to Data
September 4th-8th, 2017
Genova Nervi, Italy
http://edbtschool2017.dibris.unige.it
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APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: MAY 31st, 2017
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The EDBT Summer School brings together leading researchers recognized
as experts in their fields and provides participants the opportunity to
gain deeper insight into current research trends in the database area.
In 2017, the theme of the school will be 'Adding Value to Data'. The
scientific topics will cover principles and solutions for adding value
to data, that is, for supporting users in discovering, extracting,
integrating, accessing and interpreting the data of relevance to their
questions, while taking into account the role of the crowd and the impact
of dirty data as well as the adoption of responsible data management and
analysis processes. The school will be organized around 7 main themes,
listed below.
The 2017 summer school follows the successful structure of previous EDBT
schools: stimulating lectures by leading researchers in the field (two for
each main theme), group work on assignment, and a lively scientific and
social program.
We invite advanced graduate students, postdocs, and other academic and
industrial researchers interested in an intensive study of the state-of-
the-art in adding value to data to participate in the summer school. A
limited number of grants are offered by the EDBT association and by our
sponsor Neo Technology. Application and registration details can be found
in the school website.
Successful summer school participants will receive on request a
certificate about course activity equivalent to 2 ETCS. Some Universities
may accept such certificates towards the coursework required for PhD
programs (inquire with your university/PhD School/Advisor).
LECTURES AND SPEAKERS
* Crowd Data Sourcing
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France
Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
* Data Quality
Floris Geerts, Antwerp University, Belgium
Melanie Herschel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Data Integration
Alvaro A A Fernandes, University of Manchester, UK
Domenico Lembo, Roma La Sapienza University, Italy
* Query Answering
Pablo Barcelo', Universidad de Chile
Paolo Guagliardo, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Reasoning about Data^
Andreas Pieris, University of Oxford, UK
Emanuel Sallinger, University of Oxford, UK
* Data, Responsibly - Fairness, Neutrality and Transparency in Data Analysis
Serge Abiteboul, Inria, ENS Paris, France
Julia Stoyanovich, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
* Intelligent Web Data Extraction^
Tim Furche, University of Oxford, UK
Paolo Merialdo, Roma Tre University, Italy
This course is part of an innovative special AI&DB track for which
extra funding has been applied for
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for application: ***May 31st, 2017***
Notification of acceptance for participation and grants: June 10th, 2017
Deadline for registration: July 1st, 2017
EDBT Summer School: September 4th-8th, 2017
ORGANIZATION
CHAIRS
Barbara Catania, University of Genoa, Italy
Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford, UK
Giovanna Guerrini, University of Genoa, Italy
Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Paolo Atzeni, Roma Tre University, Italy
Barbara Catania, University of Genoa, Italy
Christine Collet, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
Torsten Grust, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Giovanna Guerrini, University of Genoa, Italy
Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Wim Martens, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Joachim W. Schmidt, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Marc H. Scholl, University of Konstanz, Germany
LOCAL ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
Laura Di Rocco, University of Genoa, Italy
Francesco De Fino, University of Genoa, Italy
Beyza Yaman, University of Genoa, Italy