Conference Program: PODS Sessions
This page describes the complete PODS Conference program. Please use the following links to skip to the sessions of interest:
KEYNOTE TALK
Foundations of Data Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective
Monday, 8:30am-10:00am
Location: Gallery 8
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Giuseppe De
Giacomo, Sapienza University of Rome; Marco Montali, Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano
Session Chair: Richard Hull (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
RESEARCH SESSIONS
Session 1: Data Mining / Information Retrieval
Monday, 10:15am-12:15pm
Location: Gallery 8
Session Chair: Frank Neven (Hasselt University)
- The Complexity of Mining Maximal Frequent Subgraphs
Benny Kimelfeld, IBM Almaden Research Center; Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Almaden Research Center - Deciding Monotone Duality and Identifying Frequent Item
Sets in Quadratic Logspace
Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford - Spanners: A Formal Framework for Information Extraction
Ronald Fagin, IBM Almaden Research Center; Benny Kimelfeld, IBM Almaden Research Center; Frederick Reiss, IBM Almaden Research Center; Stijn Vansummeren, Université libre de Bruxelles - Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by
Example
Azza Abouzied, Yale University; Dana Angluin, Yale University; Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley; Joseph Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley; Avi Silberschatz, Yale University
Session 2: Awards Session
Monday, 1:30pm-2:45pm
Location: Gallery 8
Session Chair: Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)
- The ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award
2013: Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy
Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute of Science; Kobbi Nissim, Ben-Gurion University
- Best Paper Award: Verification of Database-driven
Systems via Amalgamation
Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Warsaw University; Luc Segoufin, INRIA, LSV, ENS-Cachan; Szymon Toruńczyk, Warsaw University - Regular Paper: When is Naïve Evaluation Possible?
Amélie Gheerbrant, University of Edinburgh; Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh; Cristina Sirangelo, INRIA & CNRS, LSV, ENS-Cachan
Session 3: Tutorial Session 1
Monday, 3:15pm-4:45pm
Location: Gallery 8
Session Chair: Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of
Technology)
- Invited Tutorial 1: Sketching via Hashing: from Heavy
Hitters to Compressed Sensing to Sparse Fourier Transform
Piotr Indyk, MIT - Regular Paper: Collaborative Data-Driven Workflows:
Think Global, Act Local
Serge Abiteboul, INRIA-Saclay; Victor Vianu, University of California, San Diego
Session 4: Indexing / Question Answering
Monday, 5:15pm-6:45pm
Location: Gallery 8
Session Chair: Benny Kimelfeld (IBM Almaden Research Center)
- I/O-Efficient Planar Range Skyline and Attrition
Priority Queues
Casper Kejlberg-Rasmussen, Aarhus University; Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Konstantinos Tsakalidis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Kostas Tsichlas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Jeonghun Yoon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - Nearest Neighbor Searching Under Uncertainty II
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University; Boris Aronov, Polytechnic Institute of NYU; Sariel Har-Peled, University of Illinois; Jeff M. Phillips, University of Utah; Ke Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Wuzhou Zhang, Duke University - On the BDD/FC Conjecture
Jerzy Marcinkowski, Wrocław University; Tomasz Gogacz, Wrocław University
Session 5: Query Processing /
Verification
Tuesday, 10:30am-12:00pm
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Session Chair: Daniel Deutch (Ben-Gurion University)
- On the Expressive Power of Update Primitives
Tom Ameloot, Hasselt University & transnational University of Limburg; Jan Van den Bussche, Hasselt University & transnational University of Limburg; Emmanuel Waller, University of Paris-Sud - Flag & Check: Data Access with Monadically Defined
Queries
Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford - Verification of Relational Data-Centric Dynamic Systems
with External Services
Babak Bagheri Hariri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Giuseppe De Giacomo, Sapienza University of Rome; Alin Deutsch, University of California San Diego; Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Session 6: Tutorial Session 2
Tuesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Session Chair: Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh)
- Tutorial 2: Querying Graph Databases
Pablo Barceló, University of Chile - Regular Paper: Charting the Tractability Frontier of
Certain Conjunctive Query Answering
Jef Wijsen, University of Mons
Session 7: RDF and Ontologies
Tuesday, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Session Chair: Diego Calvanese (Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano)
- TriAL for RDF: Adapting Graph Query Languages for RDF
Data
Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh; Juan L. Reutter, University of Edinburgh; Domagoj Vrgoč, University of Edinburgh - Ontology-based Data Access: A Study through Disjunctive
Datalog, CSP, and MMSNP
Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS University of Paris-Sud; Balder Ten Cate, University of California Santa Cruz; Carsten Lutz; University of Bremen; Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool - Well-Founded Semantics for Extended Datalog and
Ontological Reasoning
André Hernich, The Humboldt University of Berlin; Clemens Kupke, University of Oxford; Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford; Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford
Session 8: Graphs and XML Processing
Wednesday, 10:30-12:00
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Session Chair: Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth)
- Semantic Acyclicity on Graph Databases
Pablo Barceló, University of Chile; Miguel Romero, University of Chile; Moshe Vardi, Rice University - On XPath with Transitive Axes and Data Tests
Diego Figueira, University of Edinburgh - A Trichotomy for Regular Simple Path Queries on Graphs
Guillaume Bagan, INRIA Lille Nord Europe; Angela Bonifati, Lille 1 University & INRIA; Benoit Groz, Tel Aviv University
Session 9: Query Languages
Wednesday, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Session Chair: Marcelo Arenas (Pontifical Catholic University
of Chile)
- Communication Steps for Parallel Query Processing
Paul Beame, University of Washington; Paraschos Koutris, University of Washington; Dan Suciu, University of Washington - A Dichotomy in the Intensional Expressive Power of
Nested Relational Calculi augmented with Aggregate
Functions and a Powerset Operator
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore - Enumeration of First-Order Queries on Classes of
Structures With Bounded Expansion
Wojciech Kazana, INRIA, LSV, ENS-Cachan; Luc Segoufin, INRIA, LSV, ENS-Cachan - The Fine Classification of Conjunctive Queries and
Parameterized Logarithmic Space Complexity
Hubie Chen, The University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque; Moritz Mueller, University of Vienna
TUTORIAL SESSIONS
- Tutorial 1: Sketching via Hashing:
from Heavy Hitters to Compressed Sensing to Sparse Fourier
Transform
Monday, 2:45pm-3:45pm
Location: Gallery 8
Piotr Indyk, MIT
- Tutorial 2: Querying Graph Databases
Tuesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Pablo Barceló, University of Chile
SPECIAL EVENTS
- PODS Colloquium on Theory Challenges in Big Data
Sunday, 6:00pm-8:30pm
Location: 4.11 (Times Square)
Details - Reflections on PODS
Tuesday, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: 3.04 & 3.05
Details
