Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Aleksey Buzmakov was nominated at the 13th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA, Nerja Málaga, Spain, June 23-26 2015) as the “best promising researcher in Formal Concept Analysis” and won the best student paper award [53] .

• Two (very) young researchers have made a stay in the team, Artuur Leeuwenberg in Spring 2014 and Alibek Sailanbayev in Spring 2015. Both young researchers have done a very good work which was rewarded by two conference publications, [66] and [46] . The Orpailleur team is particularly proud of the very good results of these young researchers.

• Three PhD students, namely Alam Mehwish, Aleksey Buzmakov and Victor Codocedo, have joined their efforts in their last year of thesis preparation for working on a common topic, the completion of web of data. This very good and very uncommon research work was rewarded by a publication in the very highly selective IJCAI 2015 Conference [1] .

• The paper “Miguel Couceiro, Lucien Haddad, Karsten Schölzel, Tamas Waldhauser. Relation graphs and partial clones on a 2-element set. 44th IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL 2014), IEEE Computer Society, 161-166.” was awarded the “Outstanding Contributed Paper Award” at the conference ISMVL 2015 (IEEE Computer Society).

• The Taaable system won 3 of the 5 prizes of the 8th “Computer Cooking Contest”, which was held during the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, in Bad Homburg, Germany (http://ccc2015.loria.fr/?id=rules ): the prize of the best cocktail system according to the jury, based on the technical/scientific paper reviews and on the comparison of the results of the systems on a same set of queries, the prizes of the public for the cocktail and sandwich systems, based on the vote after tasting.