Sebastian Link
May 10, 2022
Data-quality Driven Design of Databases
Financially, poor data quality costs organizations some ludicrous amounts of money. Worse, poor data quality is a strong inhibitor to the success of data science: No analytical method can create value from poor quality data. As a consequence, data science projects invest a majority of their resources on cleansing data. However, cleansing resists automation as […]
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Mahsa Baktash and Zi (Helen) Huang
April 17, 2022
A Leap from Model-Centric to Data Centric AI
Data as a major component of a deep learning solution is often undervalued in the ML projects, which results in a lower-than-expected accuracy, requiring hours and hours of model tuning. According to Andrew Ng, 99% of the recent publications are model-centric with only 1% being data-centric. He argues that there should be a balance between […]
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Jayant Haritsa
March 24, 2022
Robust Query Processing: A Case for Geometric Techniques
INTRODUCTION Over the last half-century, the design and implementation of declarative query processing techniques in relational database systems has been a foundational topic for both the academic and industrial database research communities. Despite this sustained study, the unfortunate reality is that the resulting solutions have largely remained a “black art”. This is due to the […]
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Wook-Shin Han
February 23, 2022
Natural Language-Based Exploration with Databases in Chatbot
We expect virtually every database to be on Cloud shortly. All database vendors strive to survive in this competing market. In the era of cloud computing, databases will become easily accessible, and thus even non-technical users want to use such databases like their TVs. In this situation, we need to interact with databases through accessible […]
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Vanessa Braganholo and Wolfgang Lehner
February 10, 2022
ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, inaugurated in 2006, recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. Jim Gray was a prolific database researcher who won the Turing Award in 1998 “for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation”. Jim Gray had a passion for […]
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