dbTrento: The Data and Information Management group at the University of Trento

摘要

The dbTrento group was established in 2006 by Profs Themis Palpanas and Yannis Velegrakis. Since then it has steadily grown into a fully functioning group with (currently) 17 members. It is located in Trento, a beautifully preserved historic town in the Dolomite mountains, which hosts one of the 6 ICT Labs of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), and aims to become a reference research and technological center in Europe. The VLDB 2013 conference is being organized by dbTrento, its founders serving as the General Chairs. The mission of the group is to conduct high level research on different aspects of large scale data and information management. The following sections provide a high level description the work in these areas, which has also led to 3 Best Paper awards.