Workshop PE2 and PE3 in Valparaíso

ByPaula Silva

December, 2022.- With productive working sessions, in which participants split up by topics of interest and specialization, the Workshop of PE2 and PE3 of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), held at the main campus of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, in Valparaíso, came to a close.

Around 40 researchers and students took part, gathered around topics related to the work of both flagship projects: Creation of new query languages for information networks (PE2) and Efficient extraction of highly complex data (PE3)

The researchers’ presentations were:

Flagship Project 2

  • Aidan Hogan, DCC U. Chile: “The ring for graph analytics”
  • Gonzalo Navarro, DCC U. Chile: “Similarity joins”.
  • Diego Arroyuelo, Facultad de Ingeniería de la UTFSM: “Temporal joins”.
  • José Fuentes. Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Concepción: “Spatial joins”.
  • Gonzalo Navarro, DCC U. Chile: “Faster matrix operations exploiting similarities”.
  • Diego Arroyuelo, Facultad de Ingeniería de la UTFSM: “Matrix algebra exploiting sparseness and clustering”.

Flagship Project 3

  • Pablo Barceló, DCC UC: “Languages for Interpretability Tasks”.
  • Carlos Buil, Facultad de Ingeniería de la UTFSM: “WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark”.
  • Eric Tanter, DCC U. Chile: “Programming language support for differential privacy”.
  • Tomasz Steifer, DCC UC: “No Agreement Without Loss: Learning and Social Choice in Peer Review”
  • Jaime Salas, DCC U. Chile: “Canonicalisation of SPARQL 1.1 Queries”.