Data, Data Everywhere

Keynote Speakers

BNCOD is fortunate in attracting two internationally renown researchers in the area of distributed data management.

Stefano Ceri is full professor of Database Systems at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano; he has been visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University between 1983 and 1990. He is chairman of LaureaOnLIne, a fully online curriculum in Computer Engineering. He is member of the Executive board of Alta Scuola Politecnica.

His research interests are focused on:

  • extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, object orientation, and query languages for XML
  • design methods for data-intensive WEB sites.

He is responsible for several EU-Funded projects at Politecnico di Milano, including W3I3: "Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures" (1998-2000), WebSI: "Data Centric Web Services Integrator" (2002-2004) Cooper: "Cooperative Open Environment for Project Centered Learning" (2005-2007) and ProLearn "Network of Excellence in Professional Learning" (2005-2008).

He is co-inventor of WebML a model for the conceptual design of Web applications (US Patent 6,591,271, July 2003) and co-founder of Web Models, a startup of Politecnico di Milano focused on WebML commercialization by means of the product WebRatio. In 2006 he has won an IBM Faculty Award and has lead a joint team of scholars who won the Semantic Web Challenge.

He was Associate Editor of ACM-Transactions on Database Systems and IEEE-Transactions on Software Engineering, and he is currently an associated editor of several international journals. He is co-editor in chief of the book series "Data Centric Systems and Applications" (Springer-Verlag).

Norman Paton is a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He is co-leader of the Information Management Group in Manchester and co-chair of the Global Grid Forum Database Access and Integration Services Working Group.

His research interests are focused on:

  • Distributed Information Management
  • Biological Information Management
  • e-Science

His research in the area of Distributed Information Management includes the projects:

  • myGrid: Supporting the e-Scientist.
  • vOGSA-DAI: Database Access and Integration Services for the Grid.
  • OGSA-DQP: Service-Based Distributed Query Processing on the Grid.
  • DIAS-MC: Design, Implementation and Adaption of Sensor Nets.
His research in the area of Genome Data Management
  • CADRE: Central Aspergillus Data REpository.
  • COGEME: Consortium for the Functional Genomics of Microbial Eukaryotes.
  • e-Fungi: Comparative Functional Genomics in the fungi.
  • GIMS: Genome Information Management System.
  • MCISB: Manchester Centre for Integrated Systems Biology.