Frank Neven
Professor
Hasselt University
Data Science Institute
Database and theoretical computer science research group
Address: Hasselt University, Agoralaan, B–3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Office: D255
Tel: +32-(0)11–268217
Fax: +32-(0)11–268299
E-mail: firstname.lastname@uhasselt.be
My main area of research is that of data wrangling and management. Currently, I am mostly interested in data management and query evaluation in a distributed context, concurrency control, and data cleaning. In the past, I worked on datamining in bioinformatics, XML schema inference, and logic in databases. Most of my publications can be found on DBLP, Google Scholar or DSPACE. Some papers can be found on PubMed.
List of recent papers: (see DBLP for a more up-to-date list)
- Parallel-Correctness and Parallel-Boundedness for Datalog Programs (with Thomas Schwentick, Christopher Spinrath, Brecht Vandevoort) ICDT 2019
- Split-Correctness in Information Extraction. (with Johannes Doleschal, Benny Kimelfeld, Wim Martens, and Yoav Nahshon) PODS 2019
- Satisfiability for SCULPT-Schemas for CSV-Like Data. (with Johannes Doleschal, Wim Martens, and Adam Witkowski) ICDT 2018
- Parallel-Correctness and Transferability for Conjunctive Queries under Bag Semantics. (with Bas Ketsman and Brecht Vandevoort) ICDT 2018
- Chisel: Sculpting Tabular and Non-Tabular Data on the Web (with Johannes Doleschal, Nico Höllerich, and Wim Martens) WWW 2018 (demo)
- Finite-State Map-Reduce Computation and Relational Algebra Queries (with N. Schweikhardt, F. Servais, and Tony Tan) ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
- Reasoning on data partitioning for single-round multi-join evaluation in massively parallel systems (with Tom J. Ameloot, Gaetano Geck, Bas Ketsman, and Thomas Schwentick) Communications of the ACM
- Parallel-Correctness and Transferability for Conjunctive Queries (with Tom J. Ameloot, Gaetano Geck, Bas Ketsman, and Thomas Schwentick) Journal of the ACM
- Satisfiability for SCULPT-Schemas for CSV-Like Data. (with Johannes Doleschal, Wim Martens, and Adam Witkowski) ICDT 2018
- Optimal Broadcasting Strategies for Conjunctive Queries over Distributed Data (with Bas Ketsman) Theory of Computing Systems
- Datalog Queries Distributing over Components (with Tom J. Ameloot, Bas Ketsman, Daniel Zinn) ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
- BonXai: Combining the Simplicity of DTDs with the Expressiveness of XML Schema. (with Wim Martens, Matthias Niewerth, and Thomas Schwentick) ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins (with Jonny Daenen, Tony Tan and Stijn Vansummeren) VLDB 2016
- Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems PODS 2016 Tutorial (slides)
- Data partitioning for single-round multi-join evaluation in massively parallel systems (with Tom J. Ameloot, Gaetano Geck, Bas Ketsman, Thomas Schwentick) Sigmod Record 2016 Highlights issue
- Parallel-Correctness and Containment for Conjunctive Queries with Union and Negation (with Gaetano Geck, Bas Ketsman, Thomas Schwentick) ICDT 2016
- Parallel-Correctness and Transferability for Conjunctive Queries (with Tom J. Ameloot, Gaetano Geck, Bas Ketsman, Thomas Schwentick) PODS 2015 (best paper award). Journal version invited for Journal of the ACM.
- BonXai: Combining the Simplicity of DTDs with the Expressiveness of XML Schema. (with Wim Martens, Matthias Niewerth, and Thomas Schwentick) PODS 2015 Journal version invited for ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
- SCULPT: A Schema Language for Tabular Data on the Web (with Wim Martens, Stijn Vansummeren) WWW 2015
- Optimal Broadcasting Strategies for Conjunctive Queries over Distributed Data (with Bas Ketsman) ICDT 2015
- Datalog Queries Distributing over Components (with Tom J. Ameloot, Bas Ketsman, Daniel Zinn) ICDT 2015
- Distributed Streaming with Finite Memory (with Nicole Schweikardt, Frederic Servais, Tony Tan) ICDT 2015
- Gumbo: Guarded Fragment Queries over Big Data (with J. Daenen, T. Tan) (demo EDBT 2015)
- Discovering XSD keys from XML data (with M. Arenas, J. Daenen, M. Urgarte, J. Van den Bussche, S. Vansummeren) ACM Transactions on Database Systems (confererence version appeared in SIGMOD 2013)
- Weaker Forms of Monotonicity for Declarative Networking: a more fine-grained answer to the CALM-conjecture (with T. Ameloot, B. Ketsman, Daniel Zinn) PODS 2014 (best paper award, ACM Best of Computing 2014) Journal version accepted for ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- Slides of my ICDT 2014 keynote on the CALM-conjecture
- Making Queries Tractable on Big Data with Preprocessing (with W. Fan, F. Geerts) VLDB 2013
- Relational Transducers for Declarative Networking (with T. Ameloot, J. Van den Bussche) Journal of the ACM
- Mining minimal motif pair sets maximally covering interactions in a protein-protein interaction network (with P. Boyen, D. Van Dyck, F. L. Valentim, A.D.J. van Dijk:). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. (DOI)
- Interactome-Wide Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Sites Reveals Effects of Protein Sequence Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (with F. L. Valentim, P. Boyen, A.J. van Dijk). PLoS One
Current students: Niels Bylois
Former students: Wim Martens, Dieter Van de Craen, Geert-Jan Bex, Wouter Gelade, Peter Boyen, Tom Ameloot (co-advised with Jan Van den Bussche), Jonny Daenen (co-advised with Jan Van den Bussche), Bas Ketsman, Brecht Vandevoort, Johannes Doleschal
Scientific awards: PODS best paper award (1998, 2014, 2015), WWW best paper award nominee (2008), IBM Belgium price for PhD thesis (2000)
I am actively working on the introduction of appropriate computer science education for all Flemish pupils from age 6 to 18. More information can be found in the publication by the Belgian Academy of science entitled
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