KRDB Research Centre
for Knowledge and Data		  


KRDB Student Seminars 2006

The KRDB seminar series consists of introductory Msc/PhD-level seminars held by KRDB members. Thus the seminars provide an opportunity for researchers and students to learn more about the research going on in the KRDB group, as well as to discuss research developments of common interest.

Seminars are held on average every week

  • on Fridays in February, March and April
  • on Wednesdays in May.

For more information, please, contact:

All seminars take place in the Faculty of Computer Science Piazza Domenicani, 3, Bozen-Bolzano, 1st Floor, Seminar Room.

DATE: February 17, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Enrico Franconi
TITLE: Introduction to Ontologies
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download Part I, download Part II.

DATE: February 24, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Alessandro Artale
TITLE: Temporal Knowledge and Ontologies
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them

DATE: March 10, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Sergio Tessaris
TITLE: RDF Data Model and Query Language (part I)
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them

DATE: March 17, no seminar (FUB open day).

Double seminar
DATE: March 23, 14,00-16,00;
DATE: March 24, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Raffaella Bernardi
TITLE: Non-classical Logics for Natural Language
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download Part I, Part II.

DATE: March 31, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Werner Nutt
TITLE: Reasoning about Aggregate Queries
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them

DATE: April 7, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Andrei Lopatenko
TITLE: Computational Complexity and Approximation of Consistent Query Answering for Numerical Databases and demonstration of the FixDB database repair system
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them

DATE: April 14, no seminar (Easter holiday)

DATE: April 21, 14,00-16,00
SPEAKER: Sergio Tessaris
TITLE: RDF Data Model and Query Language, part II (advanced)
ABSTRACT: read it

Double seminar
DATE: May 3, 8,30-10,30
DATE: May 4, 10,30-12,30
SPEAKER: Diego Calvanese
TITLE: Data Integration Systems
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them

DATE: May 10, 16,00-18,00
SPEAKER: Andrea Calì
TITLE: Query containment under database dependencies
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them

DATE: May 17, 16,00-18,00
SPEAKER: Andrei Lopatenko
TITLE: P2P Distributed Query Algorithms
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them.

DATE: May 24, 16,00-18,00
SPEAKER: Paolo Dongilli
TITLE: Semantics Driven Support for Query Formulation
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: dowload part I, dowload part II

SPEAKER: Rosella Gennari
DATE: June 8 (Thursday), 14,00-16,00
TITLE: Constraints
ABSTRACT: read it
SLIDES: download them.



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