The 27th edition of International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) – a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers, and users from academia, business, and industry – began at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad on April 11.
The four-day conference will have five keynote talks, 143 research papers, five tutorials, 11 demos, 12 industry presentations, six workshops and two panel discussions.
The conference provides a leading international forum for discussing the latest research on database systems and advanced applications. DASFAA is a well-established international conference series that provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers, and users from academia, business, and industry. It showcases state-of-the-art R&D activities in the general areas of database systems, Web information systems, and their applications. The conference’s long history has established the event as the premier research conference in the database area.
Some of the topics to be discussed during the conference are big data management, machine learning for database, graph data management, graph and social network analysis followed by text and data mining, data management in social networks, recommendation systems, search and recommendation technology, data semantics and data integration, crowdsourcing, spatial data management, network embedding, sequence and temporal data processing, temporal and spatial databases, large-scale knowledge management, RDF and knowledge graphs, social network and security, security, privacy and trust, medical data mining, bio and health informatics, query processing and optimisation, text databases, search and information retrieval, information integration etc.
The keynote speakers will include Sunita Sarawagi, institute chair professor, IIT Bombay; Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Gautam Das, director of Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (CARIDA) and Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB), University of Texas at Arlington; Ioana Manolescu, Inria and Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Tirthankar Lahiri, senior vice president, Data and In-Memory Technologies, Oracle Corporation.