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KRDB Seminars 2008
The KRDB seminar series 2008 are held by known scientists in the areas of
databases and knowledge representation.
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.
Besides these seminars, also student seminars and lunch seminars by KRDB members take place. In addition, the KRDB Spring School recently finished (see also the proceedings).
For more information, please, contact: Marijke Keet, 
, (+39) 0471 016 128.
Seminars take place in the Faculty of Computer Science Via Della Mostra 4, Bozen-Bolzano in the new Seminar Room, or in the main building in via Sernesi (see announcement for exact location).
DATE: December 15, 15:30-16:30
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Achille Fokoue
TITLE: SHER: A Scalable Highly Expressive Reasoner and its applications
ABSTRACT: 
read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: November 11, 12:45-14:00
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Magdalena Ortiz
TITLE: The combined complexity of query answering in expressive DLs
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: November 3, 15:50-16:30 and November 4, 12:30-13:30
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Davide Martinenghi
TITLE: Query answering and containment under access limitations
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: October 22, 15:30-16:30
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Paea LePendu
TITLE: Ontologies as a Conceptual Model over Relational Databases
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: October 17, 10:00-11:00
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Lucian Popa
TITLE: Interactive Generation of Integrated Schemas
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES:
DATE: October 17, 9:00-10:00
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Phokion G. Kolaitis
TITLE: Answering Aggregate Queries in Data Exchange
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES:
DATE: October 8, 15:30-16:30
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Pablo Fillottrani
TITLE: Ontology-driven Geographic Information Integration
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: October 6, 15:30-16:30
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Pablo Fillottrani
TITLE: Process Interoperability for Seamless Government
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: September 25, 11:00-12:00
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Lina Al-Jadir
TITLE: OntoMinD: Tailoring a DBMS to support Ontological Knowledge
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: September 25, 10:00-11:00
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Hector Manuel Pérez Urbina
TITLE: Query Rewriting techniques for Description Logics
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: September 24, 14:00-15:00
LOCATION: Via della Mostra 4, seminar room
SPEAKER:
Stefano Spaccapietra
TITLE: Scientific Data Modeling: Reaching Beyond What we Know
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: September 8, 15:00-16:00
LOCATION: Via Sernesi 1, Room A101 (next to the library)
SPEAKER:
Georgios (Yiorgos) Trimponias
TITLE: A Survey on Reasoning with Distributed Ontologies and Distributed Reasoning
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: June 19, 15:00-16:00
SPEAKER:
Andrea Cali
TITLE: Query answering under expressive relational constraints: the case of infinite chase
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: June 16, 14:00-15:00
SPEAKER:
Krzysztof R. Apt
TITLE: Order independence of strategy elimination procedures in strategic games
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them (the slides of the faculty seminar can be downloaded here)
DATE: June 11 and June 12, 8:45-10:30
SPEAKER:
Jan Chomicki
TITLE: Database Consistency: Logic-Based Approaches
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: June 10, 11:00-12:00
SPEAKER:
Tommie Meyer
TITLE: Inconsistency management for Description Logics
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: March 4, 11:00-12:00
SPEAKER:
Alberto Abelló and Oscar Romero
TITLE: Automating Multidimensional Design of Data Warehouses
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: January 29, 15:00-16:00
SPEAKER:
Stijn Heymans
TITLE: Open Answer Set Programming: what, why, and how?
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them
DATE: January 28, 11:30-12:30
SPEAKER: Michele Missikoff
TITLE: A featuring ontology for semantic similarity reasoning: preliminary ideas and results
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: January 23, 11:00-12:00
SPEAKER:
Nicola Leone
TITLE: Semantics and Complexity of Recursive Aggregates in Answer Set Programming
ABSTRACT: read
it
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DATE: January 4, 15:00-16:00
SPEAKER: Axel Polleres
TITLE: Next steps on SPARQL
ABSTRACT: read
it
SLIDES: download them