About Me
Anton Dignös, PhD
Assistant Professor | RTD
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Faculty of Engineering
Dominikanerplatz/piazza Domenicani 3
39100 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

office: POS 2.19
phone: +39 0471 016142
email: anton dot dignoes at unibz dot it

I am an Assistant Professor (RTD) in the Database Systems Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. I received a BSc degree in Applied Computer Science in 2008 and a MSc degree in Computer Science in 2010 from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. In 2014 I received a PhD degree (Dr. sc.) in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Michael Böhlen.
Selected Publications ( → Full list )
Teaching

I am currently teaching the following course(s):

Proposals for BSc/MSc theses are available at our DBS group page, alternatively, just drop me an email or stop by my office to have a chat.

Previous courses at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano:

Previous courses at the University of Zurich:

Awards
2023
Best paper award for “Indexing Temporal Relations for Range-Duration Queries” at SSDBM 2023.
2022
Best paper award for “Querying Temporal Anomalies in Healthcare Information Systems and Beyond” at ADBIS 2022.
2017
Paper “Extending the kernel of a relational DBMS with comprehensive support for sequenced temporal queries selected as part of the 21st Annual Best of Computing by ACM Computing Reviews.
2017
Best paper award for “Sparse prefix sums” at ADBIS 2017.
Services
Conference Officer
Program co-chair of the PhD Workshop at the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2024.
Co-chair of the AIDMA Workshop at the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) 2023.
Program co-chair of the PhD Workshop at the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2023.
Web & Publicity chair for the International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM) 2021.
Co-chair of the Student Research Forum at the International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM) 2021.
Local arrangements chair for the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) 2018.
Program committee member
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2024
International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2023 (Demo track)
International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK) 2023
International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA) 2023
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2023
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2023
International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA) 2023
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2022 (Demo track)
International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2022 (Demo track)
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2022
International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA) 2022
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2021 (Demo track)
International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) 2021
International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA) 2021
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2020
International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) 2020
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2020
International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA) 2020
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2019
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2019
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2018
International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM) 2018
International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) 2016
International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW) 2016
Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2)
Distributed and Parallel Databases (3)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (5)
Informatica (1)
Information and Computation (1)
Information Systems (2)
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (1)
SIGMOD Record (1)
VLDB Journal (2)
External reviewer
East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) (1)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1)
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (3)
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) (1)