The Schedule

Friday, September 24th 2021

*9:30 -9:45 Kickoff for DMAW

Dr. Georgia Koutrika, Athena Research Center

Prof. Dimitrios Gunopulos, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens

Prof. Yannis Emiris, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens & Athena Research Center

Prof. Maria Roussou, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens

9:45 -10.45 Keynote Speaker - session chair: Maria Roussou, University of Athens

Prof. Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, NKUA

10:45-11:45 Data storage and representation - session chair: Dimitrios Tsoumakos, National Technical University of Athens

DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data - Michalis Xydas

Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes - Christina Borovilou

Optimal Histograms with Outliers - Aleksandros Kalimeris

Creating Locally Aligned Embeddings for Robust Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL Translation - Giorgos Katsogiannis

11:45 -12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:00 Learning from and for Data - session chair: Evagelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina

A Learning Based Approach to Predict Shortest-Path Distances - Alexandros Zerntev

Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic User Intent Prediction in Human-Database Interaction - Giannis Misios

DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! - Katerina Xagorari

Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics - Maria-Sofia Georgaki

13:00 -13:15 Data Science for NeuroScience - session chair: Evagelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina

Maria Papadopouli – Professor, UoC, ICS-FORTH, Greece

13:15 -14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 -15:30 Data analytics and exploration - session chair: George Papastefanatos, Athena Research Center

SQL Query Completion for Data Exploration - Dimitris Reppas

Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis - Antonis Papadakis

Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries - Anna Mitsopoulou

Dynamic Query Refinement for Interactive Data Exploration - Stelios Kotzastratis

Manually Detecting Errors for Data Cleaning Using Adaptive Crowdsourcing Strategies - Valerios Stais

Evidence-based Factual Error Correction with Fusion in Decoder - Markos Iliakis

15:30 -15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-16:15 Data Visualization - session chair: Vasilis Efthymiou, ICS-FORTH & University of Crete

Restaurants in Europe: A Visualization Analysis - Aliki Giovitsa, Dimitris Vogiatzis, Natasha Papathoma

Visualizing World Happiness - Antonis Papadakis, Athanasios Polydoros, Christina Borovilou

16:15 -16:45 Sponsor Talk - session chair: Vasilis Efthymiou, ICS-FORTH & University of Crete

Chara Sermpetzoglou, Senior Principal Analytics Consultant, Oracle Hellas

16:45 -17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 -18:00 Academia vs Industry Panel - moderator: Georgia Koutrika, Athena Research Center

  • Eirini Ntoutsi – Professor, FU Berlin, Germany

  • Anna Kyriakidou – Software Director, inos Automationssoftaware Gmbh

  • Nassos Katsamanis – VP of Engineering at Behavioral Signal Technologies, Principal Researcher at Athena Research Center

  • Neoklis Polyzotis – Senior Staff Engineer at Databricks

  • Vasilis Efthymiou – Postdoctoral Researcher at ICS-FORTH, Visiting Instructor at University of Crete

Closing Ceremony - Awards

Evaluation Committee:

  • Maria Roussou – Assistant Professor, NKUA, Greece

  • Maria Papadopouli – Professor, UoC, ICS-FORTH, Greece

  • Kostas Stefanidis – Associate Professor, Tampere University, Finland

  • Theodore Dalamagas – Research Director, Vice Director, ATHENA Research Center, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Symbiolabs (spinoff of ATHENA)

  • Vasilis Efthymiou – Postdoctoral Researcher at ICS-FORTH, Visiting Instructor at University of Crete

*Time is in Eastern European Summer Time (GMT+3)