About Me

Anton Dignös, PhD

Associate Professor
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Faculty of Engineering
NOI Techpark - Bruno-Buozzi-Straße 1 - via Bruno Buozzi 1
39100 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

office: B1.5.22
phone: +39 0471 016142
email: anton dot dignoes at unibz dot it

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7621-967X

Selected Publications ( → Full list )

• M. S. Hafidi, O. Kahramanogullari, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper
  Relational Data Models for Genetic VCF data.
  PVLDB 2025.
• M. Mozaffari, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and U. Störl
  Self-tuning Database Systems: A Systematic Literature Review of Automatic Database Schema Design and Tuning.
  ACM Computing Surveys 2024.
• L. Althaus, M. Khayati, A. Khelifati, A. Dignös, D. Difallah, and P. Cudré-Mauroux
  SEER: An End-to-End Toolkit for Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems in Monitoring Applications.
  PVLDB 2024 Demo.
• A. Khelifati, M. Khayati, A. Dignös, D. Difallah, and P. Cudré-Mauroux
  TSM-Bench: Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications.
  PVLDB 2023.
• A. Dignös, M. H. Böhlen, J. Gamper, C. S. Jensen, and P. Moser
  Leveraging Range Joins for the Computation of Overlap Joins.
  The VLDB Journal 2022.
• M. Shekelyan, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and M. Garofalakis
  Approximating Multidimensional Range Counts with Maximum Error Guarantees.
  ICDE 2021, Chania, Crete, Greece.
• T. Liu, P. Coletti, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and M. Murgia
  Correlation graph analytics for stock time series data.
  EDBT 2021 Demo, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• D. Piatov, S. Helmer, A. Dignös, and F. Persia
  Cache-Efficient Sweeping-Based Interval Joins for Extended Allen Relation Predicates.
  The VLDB Journal 2021.
• A. Dignös, B. Glavic, X. Niu, M. H. Böhlen, and J. Gamper
  Snapshot Semantics for Temporal Multiset Relations.
  PVLDB 2019.
• D. Piatov, S. Helmer, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper
  Interactive and space-efficient multi-dimensional time series subsequence matching.
  Information Systems 2019.
• M. Shekelyan, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper
  Sparse prefix sums: constant-time range sum queries over sparse multidimensional data cubes.
  Information Systems 2019.
• M. Shekelyan, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper
  DigitHist: a histogram-based data summary with tight error bounds.
  PVLDB 2017.
• K. Wellenzohn, M. H. Böhlen, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and H. Mitterer
  Continuous imputation of missing values in streams of pattern-determining time series.
  EDBT 2017, Venice, Italy.
• G. Mahlknecht, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper
  A scalable dynamic programming scheme for the computation of optimal k-segments for ordered data.
  Information Systems 2017.
• A. Dignös, M. H. Böhlen, J. Gamper, and C. S. Jensen
  Extending the kernel of a relational DBMS with comprehensive support for sequenced temporal queries.
  TODS 2016.
• D. Piatov, S. Helmer, and A. Dignös
  An interval join optimized for modern hardware.
  ICDE 2016, Helsinki, Finland.
• A. Dignös, M. H. Böhlen, and J. Gamper
  Overlap interval partition join.
  SIGMOD 2014, Snowbird, UT, USA.
• A. Dignös, M. H. Böhlen, and J. Gamper
  Query time scaling of attribute values in interval timestamped databases.
  ICDE 2013 Demo, Brisbane, Australia.
• A. Dignös, M. H. Böhlen, and J. Gamper
  Temporal alignment.
  SIGMOD 2012, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.

Teaching

I am currently teaching the following course(s):

• Data Management and Business Intelligence, MSc level, 2025/2026
• Real-Time Big Data Processing, MSc level, 2025/2026
• Angewandte Informatik, BSc level, 2025/2026

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:

• Data Management and Business Intelligence, MSc level, 2024/2025
• Angewandte Informatik, BSc level, 2024/2025
• Data Management Technologies, MSc level, 2023/2024
• Angewandte Informatik, BSc level, 2023/2024
• Data Management Technologies, MSc level, 2022/2023
• Angewandte Informatik, BSc level, 2022/2023
• Data Management Technologies, MSc level, 2021/2022
• Advanced Data Management Technologies, MSc level, 2020/2021
• Advanced Data Management Technologies, MSc level, 2019/2020
• Research Methods — Part V: Empirical/experimental CS research methods (joint PhD course), PhD level, 2019/2020
• Database Management Systems, BSc level, 2018/2019
• Research Methods — Part II: Empirical/experimental CS research methods (joint PhD course), PhD level, 2018/2019
• Temporal and Spatial Databases (together with Vincenzo Del Fatto), MSc level, 2018/2019
• Advanced Data Management Technologies — labs (taught by Johann Gamper), MSc level, 2018/2019
• Temporal and Spatial Databases (together with Vincenzo Del Fatto), MSc level, 2017/2018
• Advanced Data Management Technologies — labs (taught by Johann Gamper), MSc level, 2017/2018
• Temporal and Spatial Databases (together with Vincenzo Del Fatto), MSc level, 2016/2017
• Advanced Data Management Technologies — labs (taught by Johann Gamper), MSc level, 2016/2017
• Temporal and Spatial Databases, BSc level, 2015/2016

Previous courses at the University of Zurich:

• Informatics II (Data Structures and Algorithms), University of Zurich, Switzerland, BSc level, Spring term 2021
• Database Systems — labs (taught by Michel Böhlen), BSc level, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014
• Nonstandard Database Systems — labs (taught by Michel Böhlen), MSc level, 2012
• Distributed Database Systems — labs (taught by Michel Böhlen), MSc level, 2011

I am/was advising the following students: Saifullah Burero (PhD — ongoing), Edgar Alexis Herrera Montalvo (MSc — ongoing), Gyeongwon Song (MSc 2026), Abhishek Bargujar (MSc 2026), Andreas Rogen (BSc 2025), Matteo Ponza (MSc 2025), Aditya Iftikar Riaddy (MSc 2024), Marcelo Eduardo Redoschi (MSc 2023), Deivid Bardhi (BSc 2022), Xiaozhe Yao (co-advisor — MSc 2022), Aristea Ibershimi (co-advisor — MSc 2021), Alessandro Dal Gobbo (co-advisor — MSc 2021), Giovanni Mahlknecht (co-advisor — PhD 2020), Silvia Fracalossi (MSc 2020), Jamal Mohammed (co-advisor — MSc 2020), Thomas Mannhart (co-advisor — BSc 2020), Manuel Pillon (BSc 2020), Ulrike Niederstätter (BSc 2020), Andriy Polulyakh (BSc 2020), Michael Shekelyan (co-advisor — PhD 2018), Matthias Keim (BSc 2017), Peter Moser (co-advisor — MSc 2017), Kevin Wellenzohn (co-advisor — MSc 2015), Tobias Bernard (co-advisor — BSc 2015), Oliver Leumann (co-advisor — BSc 2013), Jonas Schmid (co-advisor — BSc 2012).

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 27th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) 2025.

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 Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2027

International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2026

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2025

International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2025

ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC) 2025

European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) 2025

IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence x Data & Knowledge Engineering (AIxDKE) 2024

International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK) 2024

International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2024 (Demo track)

European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) 2024

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)

Data and Knowledge Engineering (3)

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 (4)

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)