Smart Data Factory - Research group

FDT: Foundations of Database Technologies

Mission

Foundations of data management systems come in two flavours. On the one hand there are formal theories based on areas such as logic, discrete mathematics, and probability theory. On the other hand, researchers have developed a wealth of technologies to store, access and manipulate large amounts of information. In its research, the group investigates data management applications to identify foundational challenges and to develop both data management technologies and their formal underpinnings. The group pursues several directions:

It aims to provide principled solutions for problems that currently are tackled by ad-hoc approaches.
It looks for applications that present foundational challenges, either of conceptual or technological nature, to develop principled solutions and validate them.
It also identifies open conceptual or theoretical problems in the data management research community with the aim to solve them.

In its teaching, it familiarizes students with the principles underlying data management techniques so that they understand the relationships and interdependencies between existing technologies and will be able to quickly adopt new development.

Relevance

The individual members have built up research competencies on various foundational topics in databases, which the group combines and focuses.

Topics

Database theory
Database implementation techniques
Data quality
Semantics of data
Data wrangling
Knowledge base management
Information extraction

Key technologies

Database systems
Information integration systems
Knowledge bases
Computational logics
Artificial intelligence

Key technologies

Database systems
Information integration systems
Knowledge bases
Computational logics
Artificial intelligence

Applications

Advances in relational database systems
Models and techniques to maintain data quality
Techniques to generate and enrich knowledge bases

Contact

Werner Nutt (

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Werner Nutt is a full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Find out more about him checking out his website.

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