BARBARA CATANIA - RESEARCH

Research Interests

Research interests fall in the data management area, with current specific interests in issues related to advanced query optimization and processing techniques, indexing, social data analysis, geo-spatial data management. Currently, they are mainly focused on large scale data management as well as semantic and graph data management.

Keywords

adaptive and approximate query processing, recurring queries, source selection for linked data, location inference, spatial data management

Research groups and labs

• DaMA Research Group
• Data Science and Engineering Research Program
• Big Data Interest Group UniGe
• CINI Big Data Research Lab

PhD Students

• Current:
  • Francesco De Fino (PhD Program in Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy)
  • Laura Di Rocco (PhD Program in Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy)
  • Beyza Yaman (PhD Program in Computer Science , University of Genoa, Italy)
• Past:
  • Paola Podestà (2010)
  • Anna Maddalena (2006)
  • Paolo Perlasca (2004)

Publications

• List of publications from DBLP Bibliography

Event organization

• EDBT Summer School 2017
• 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology and 16th International Conference on Database Theory (EDBT-ICDT'13)
• 17th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS'13)
• 14th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS'10)
• 17th Italian Symp. on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD'09), 2009.
• International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web (in conjunction with EDBT'2008)
• International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web (in conjunction with EDBT'2006)
• International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web (in conjunction with EDBT'2004) (DATAX'2004, Crete, Greece, March 2004)
• 1st ECOOP Workshop on XML and Object Technology (in conjunction with ECOOP'2000) (XOT'2000, Sophie Antipolis, France, June 2000)

Services

• Member of the ADBIS (East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems) Steering Committee (since 2010)
• Member of the SOFSEM (International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science) Steering Commitee (since 2015). International Journal of Computer Science & Applications
• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence
• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies