EDBT/ICDT 2018 Awards


We are very pleased to announce the following EDBT/ICDT 2018 Awards:

EDBT 2018

ICDT 2018


EDBT 2018 Test of Time Award

The EDBT 2018 Test of Time Award committee was formed by:
    Michael Böhlen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Norman Paton, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
    Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs Research, United States

After careful consideration, the committee has decided to select the following paper as the EDBT ToT Award winner for 2018:

Social ties and their relevance to churn in mobile telecom networks.
by Koustuv Dasgupta, Rahul Singh, Balaji Viswanathan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sougata Mukherjea, Amit A. Nanavati, and Anupam Josi.
In Proceedings of EDBT 2008, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, volume 261, pp. 668 - 677.

The EDBT ToT award for 2018 will be presented in the Awards Session on Wednesday, 28 March, 2018, 09:00 - 10:30 o'clock.


EDBT 2018 Best Paper Award

The EDBT 2018 Best Paper Award committee was formed by:
    Michael Böhlen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
    Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden, Germany
    Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

After careful consideration, the EDBT 2018 Best Paper Award committee has decided to select the following paper as the EDBT Best Paper winner for 2018:

Temporally-Biased Sampling for Online Model Management.
by Brian Hentschel, Peter Haas, and Yuanyuan Tian.
EDBT Research Session 01

The EDBT 2018 Best Paper Award committee has decided to give a second award to the runner up paper of 2018. For the EDBT 2018 Runner Up Award the committee has selected:

GeoAlign: Interpolating Aggregates over Unaligned Partitions.
by Jie Song, Danai Koutra, Murali Mani, and H. Jagadish.
EDBT Research Session 07


EDBT 2018 Best Demonstration Award

The EDBT 2018 Best Demonstration committee was formed by
    Shan-Hung Wu (Demo Chair), National Tsing Hua University
    Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba
    Robert Brijder, Hasselt University
    Jan van den Bussche, Universiteit Hasselt
    Luca Cagliero, Politecnico di Torino
    Vittoria Cozza, University of Padua
    G.H.L. Fletcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Syed Gillani, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
    Gheorghi Guzun, San Jose State University
    Wong Wai Kit, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong
    Alexander Rasin, DePaul University
    Tomer Sagi, University of Haifa
    Nicolas Travers, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
    Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology

After careful consideration, the EDBT 2018 Demonstration Award committee has decided to select the following demo as the EDBT Best Demo winner for 2018:

Pharos: Privacy Hazards of Replicating ORAM Stores.
by Victor Zakhary, Cetin Sahin, Amr El Abbadi, Huijia (Rachel) Lin, and Stefano Tessaro.


ICDT 2018 Test of Time Award

The ICDT 2018 Test of Time Award committee was formed by:
    Pablo Barcelo, Universidad de Chile, Chile
    Richard B. Hull, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York, United States
    Victor Vianu, University of California, San Diego, United States

After careful consideration, the committee has decided to give the ICDT 2018 Test of Time Award to two papers - one from ICDT 1999 and one from ICDT 2001:

When Is "Nearest Neighbor" Meaningful?
by Kevin S. Beyer, Jonathan Goldstein, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Uri Shaft.
In Proceedings of ICDT 1999, Springer LNCS 1540, pp. 217 - 235.

Why and Where: A Characterization of Data Provenance.
by Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, and Wang Chiew Tan
In Proceedings of ICDT 2001, Springer LNCS 1973, pp. 316 - 330.

The ICDT ToT award for 2018 will be presented in the Awards Session on Wednesday, 28 March, 2018, 09:00 - 10:30 o'clock.


ICDT 2018 Best Paper Award

After careful consideration, the ICDT program committee has decided to select the following paper as the ICDT Best Paper winner for 2018:

Evaluation and Enumeration Problems for Regular Path Queries.
by Wim Martens and Tina Trautner.
ICDT Session 1

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