It is our great pleasure to present on behalf of the entire conference organizing committee and the workshop organizers, the proceedings of the Workshops co-located with the 27th International
The EDBT and ICDT series of conferences are prestigious forums for exchanging novel results that extend the foundations and applications of data management technologies. This year, five exciting workshops continue the tradition of focusing on emerging topics in data management, complementing the areas covered by the main technical program (these proceedings include the first four workshops, while the last one runs its own proceedings):
- We are happy to present the proceedings of the 2024 EDBT Ph.D. Workshop. The workshop was co-located with the 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2024) in Paestum, Italy and was held on March 25, 2024. We assembled a program consisting of four papers accepted out of the six submissions we received. The papers span a wide spectrum of topics relevant in database research. The workshop program included a keynote presentation by Paolo Papotti (EURECOM, France). Paolo Papotti discussed the career landscape of a Ph.D. in data management and the challenges of identifying the "ideal" career path during postgraduate studies. The program also included a panel discussion with well established members of the database community on "How to write (and receive) reviews". The panelists were: Paolo Missier (Newcastle University, UK), Volker Markl (TU Berlin, Germany), Anastassia Ailamaki (EPFL, Switzerland), Donatella Firmani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Benny Kimelfeld (Technion, Israel), and Sudeepa Roy (Duke University, USA). As an additional support for the Ph.D. students, we offered two forms of mentorship. Each student was mapped to a PC member for individual online feedback sessions based on the submitted paper and review. We also connected the attendees with well established members of the database community for general questions about research during the conference.
We thank Letizia Tanca and Qiong Luo, the EDBT 2024 PC chairs, and Loredana Caruccio and Giuseppe Polese, the general chairs, who entrusted us with this role, and Themis Palpanas and H V Jagadish for coordinating all workshops. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the whole local and technical organizing team. Finally, we thank the workshop program committee, who did a great job evaluating the papers and writing constructive feedback for the authors. We hope the event gave Ph.D. students a good opportunity to share and exchange research ideas with experienced researchers and become members of the friendly and welcoming database community. We wish all participants the very best for their research!
• Anton Dignös Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) In its 6 th edition, the BMDA workshop fostered the exchange of new ideas on multidisciplinary real-world problems, discussing proposals about innovative solutions, and identifying emerging opportunities for further research in the area of big mobility data analytics, such as deep learning on mobility data, edge computing, visual analytics. The workshop contributed to bridge the gap between researchers and big mobility data stakeholders, including experts from critical domains, such as urban and maritime transportation, human complex networks. All papers received three reviews from the program committee, and twelve of them were accepted for presentation during the workshop. Finally, the workshop hosted an invited talk by Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University of Athens) on maritime trajectory classification and clustering.
• Mirco Nanni ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy) The organizers of DARLI-AP would like to thank all those who contributed to the success of the eighth edition:
• The authors -for submitting their research papers to the workshop;
• The keynote speaker, Prof. Luca Cagliero, who gave us the honor to present his recent research project and vision at DARLI-AP 2024; • The members of the Program Committee and the external reviewers who dedicated their time and expertise to provide constructive and very useful feedback to the authors; • The EDBT/ICDT 2024 chairs -for their trust and valuable support.
• Tania Cerquitelli Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Better information management is the key to a more intelligent health and social system. In this direction, many challenges must be first overcome, enabling seamless, effective and efficient access to the various health data sets and novel methods for exploiting the available information. HeDAI aims to bring together an interdisciplinary audience interested in the fields of health informatics, data management, AI, semantic web, and to discuss the unique challenges in health-care data management, also including ethical issues, to propose novel and practical solutions for the next generation of data-driven health-care systems.
The submitted papers were reviewed by a Program Committee including 13 international experts in the related fields. Each paper received between three to four reviews. Three papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. HeDAI program also included two keynotes given by Lucia Sacchi (University of Pavia, Italy) related to the importance of data management in the design of AI-based clinical decision support, and Tommaso di Noia (University of Bari, Italy) related to the importance of explaining health predictions in the era of LLMs. A tutorial about advanced cyberinfrastructure for large-scale health data analysis was given by Praveen Rao (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA).
• Elisa Quintarelli University of Verona (Italy)