Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, Scientific chair

• I. Manolescu has been a co-chair of the 2nd International Workshop on Benchmarking RDF Systems (BeRSyS), in conjunction with VLDB 2014.

Member of the organizing committee

• N. Bidoit has been co-organiser of the summer school Ecole Thèmatique Bases de Données, June 2014, Oléron, whose focus was on Massive and Distributed Data Management.

Scientific events selection

Responsable of the conference program committee

• I. Manolescu has been a group leader (track chair) of the “Text Databases, XML and Keyword Search” track of the ACM SIGMOD Conference 2014.

Member of the conference program committee

• I. Manolescu: Extending Database Technologies Conference (EDBT), IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), SIGMOD/PODS PhD Symposium, Data4U workshop (in conjunction with VLDB 2014). She has also participated in the program committee of Bases de Données Avancées (BDA) 2014.

• Bogdan Cautis served as program committee member for the international conferences EDBT 2014, SIGMOD 2014, and CIKM 2014, as well as the workshops UnCrowd 2014 and BUDA 2014 (with ACM SIGMOD). He also participated in the program committee of Bases de Données Avancées (BDA) 2014.

Reviewer

• Bogdan Cautis served as reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

• I. Manolescu has been the Editor in Chief of the ACM SIGMOD Record until June 2014; she is an associate editor of the ACM Transaction on Internet Technology, and a member of the review board of PVLDB 2014.