Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Yannis Velegrakis (U. Trento) visited the team in December 2014 and gave a seminar on recommender systems.

• Konstantinos Karanasos (Microsoft Research) visited the team in November 2014 and gave a seminar on dynamic query optimization in large-scale data processing platforms.

• Tamer Ozsu (U. Waterloo) visited the team in October 2014 and gave a seminar on distributed RDF data management.

• Alin Deutsch (UCSD) visited the team in October 2014 as part of our OakSaD joint work.

• Dan Olteanu (Oxford U.) visited the team in October 2014 and gave a seminar on modern Datalog evaluation engines.

• Julien Leblay (Oxford U.) visited the team in May 2014 and gave a seminar on querying the deep web.

• Laurent Daynès (Oracle) visited the team in February 2014 and gave a seminar on optimization techniques for evaluating arithmetic expressions in Oracle.

Internships

• Sejla Cebiric (M2 intern), from University of Sarajevo, Bosnia (March - August 2014)

• Elham Akbari Azirani (M2 intern), from University of Teheran, Iran (April - September 2014)

Visits to International Teams

Research stays abroad

Bogdan Cautis visited Yahoo Labs Barcelona, in July, on the account of ongoing collaborations in as-you-type search and query recommendation in social media. He also visited the University of Singapore for one week in April (Stephane Bressan's team).