Workshop on "Global Scientific Data Infrastructures: The Findability Challenge"

Program

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Thursday, 10 May 2012

09.00 – 09.30 Welcome and Workshop Context (C. Thanos, Y. Ioannidis)
09.30 – 10.30 Session 1
Large Usage Data and the Wisdom of Crowds (R. Baeza - Yates)
Discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00 Session 2
Megamodeling (S. Ceri)
Social mining and the New Deal on Data (D. Pedreschi)
Transformation of Heterogeneous Data for Traditional and non Traditional Databases (P. Atzeni)
Discussion
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Session 3
Profiling Attitudes for Advanced Information Provision (Y. Ioannidis)
Annotation and Provenance Schemas (P. Buneman)
Rewriting preferences as queries (N. Spyratos)
Discussion
16.30 – 18.30 Session 4
Arrays in Databases, the next frontier (M. Kersten)
Database Cracking: Towards Auto-tuning Database Kernels for Exploring Scientific Data (S. Idreos)
Towards Comprehensive Big Data Support: the EarthServer Project (P. Baumann)
Discussion

Friday, 11 May 2012

09.00 – 10.30 Session 5
Giving Linked Data a Social Context with Distributed Social Networking (S. Auer)
Entity Reconstruction: Bringing the pieces of the puzzle back together (G. Koutrika)
Discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Session 6
Query rewriting for ontology-based Big Data access (M.Lenzerini)
Creative Search: Using Mindmaps for Contextual Search (T. Sellis)
Discussion
12.30 – 13.30 General Discussion
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
15.00 – 23.00 Social Event (Excursion to the ETNA Volcano)