The conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW) is the conference of the German Informatics Society's (GI) special interest group on databases and information systems (DBIS).
Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web | |
---|---|
Abbreviation | BTW |
Discipline | databases and information systems |
Publication details | |
Publisher | Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), GI |
History | 1985– |
Frequency | biennial |
yes | |
Website | https://fb-dbis.gi.de/btw-konferenz |
The biennial BTW conference series started in 1985 in Karlsruhe with 320 participants. Since then it has been held every two years at German and Swiss universities. It can be seen as the GI's counterpart to the ACM SIGMOD and CIKM conferences. Although it is an international conference with English as the conference language, it is mainly aimed at German-speaking groups and is considered to be the most important conference in the field of database systems in the German-speaking area.
The conference itself consists of a research and industrial programme including presentations or demonstrations of the papers published in the conference proceedings. At the conference, the DBIS group awards several prizes, including the prize for the best dissertation in Database and Information Systems [1] and the prizes for the best papers. [2] Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference.
Nr. | Year | Location | Chairs | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1985 | Karlsruhe | Peter Lockemann, Wollfried Stucky, Albrecht Blaser | March 20–22, 1985 |
2 | 1987 | Darmstadt | Hans-Jörg Schek, Gunter Schlageter | April 1–3, 1987 |
3 | 1989 | Zürich | Carl August Zehnder, Theo Härder | March 1–3, 1989 |
4 | 1991 | Kaiserslautern | Theo Härder, Hans-Jürgen Appelrath | March 6–8, 1991 |
5 | 1993 | Braunschweig | Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Wollfried Stucky | March 3–5, 1993 |
6 | 1995 | Dresden | Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Georg Lausen | March 22–24, 1995 |
7 | 1997 | Ulm | Peter Dadam, Klaus R. Dittrich | March 5–7, 1997 |
8 | 1999 | Freiburg im Breisgau | Georg Lausen, Alexandro Buchmann | March 1–3, 1999 |
9 | 2001 | Oldenburg (Oldb) | Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, Andreas Heuer | March 7–9, 2001 |
10 | 2003 | Leipzig [3] | Erhard Rahm, Gerhard Weikum | February 26–28, 2003 |
11 | 2005 | Karlsruhe | Peter Lockemann, Wolffried Stucky, Gottfried Vossen | March 2–4, 2005 |
12 | 2007 | Aachen [4] | Matthias Jarke, Thomas Seidl, Alfons Kemper | March 5–9, 2007 |
13 | 2009 | Münster | Gottfried Vossen, Johann-Christoph Freytag | March 2–6, 2009 |
14 | 2011 | Kaiserslautern [5] | Theo Härder, Bernhard Mitschang | February 28 – March 4, 2011 |
15 | 2013 | Magdeburg | Gunter Saake, Volker Markl | March 11–15, 2013 |
16 | 2015 | Hamburg [6] | Thomas Seidl | March 2–6, 2015 |
17 | 2017 | Stuttgart [7] | Bernhard Mitschang, Daniela Nicklas | March 6–10, 2017 |
18 | 2019 | Rostock [8] | Andreas Heuer, Torsten Grust, Felix Naumann | March 4–8, 2019 |
19 | 2021 | Dresden [9] (online) | Wolfgang Lehner, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Melanie Herschel | April 19 – June 21, 2021 (weekly lectures) |
20 | 2023 | Dresden [10] | Wolfgang Lehner, Stefanie Scherzinger, Birgitta König-Ries | March 6–10, 2023 |
21 | 2025 | Bamberg [11] | March 3–7, 2025 |
Rudolf Bayer is a German computer scientist.
SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases.
Gerhard Weikum is a German computer scientist and Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current research interests include transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, data and text integration, and the automatic construction of knowledge bases. He is one of the creators of the YAGO knowledge base. He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).
Ronald Fagin is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge.
The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is an annual computer science conference focused on research into new techniques for data management. It was started in 2002 by Michael Stonebraker, Jim Gray, and David DeWitt as a biennial conference to be held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. In 2020, it was transformed into an annual conference with alternating location between Amsterdam and the USA.
Chandrasekaran Mohan is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He was born on 3 August 1955 in Tamil Nadu, India. After growing up there and finishing his undergraduate studies in Chennai, he moved to the United States in 1977 for graduate studies, naturalizing in 2007. In June 2020, he retired from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center after working at IBM Research for 38.5 years. Currently, he is a visiting professor at China's Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Advisor at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) in Chennai and an advisor at the Kerala Blockchain Academy in Kerala.
Susanne Boll is a Professor for Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. and is a member of the board at the research institute OFFIS. She is a member of SIGMM and SIGCHI of the ACM as well as the German Informatics Society GI. She founded and directs the HCI Lab at the University of Oldenburg and OFFIS.
Wilfried Brauer was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.
Richard Thomas Snodgrass is an American computer scientist and writer and is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is best known for his work on temporal databases, query language design, query optimization and evaluation, storage structures, database design, and ergalics.
The German Informatics Society (GI) is a German professional society for computer science, with around 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members. It is the biggest organized representation of its kind in the German-speaking world.
Tova Milo is a full Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences. She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2011 to 2014. Milo is the head of the data management group in Tel Aviv University, and her research focuses on Web data management. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in 1992 under the supervision of Catriel Beeri, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and INRIA, France, prior to joining Tel Aviv University.
Anastasia Ailamaki is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the Director of the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems (DIAS) lab. She is also the co-founder of RAW Labs SA, a Swiss company developing real-time analytics infrastructures for heterogeneous big data. Formerly, she was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
Leonid Libkin is a computer scientist who works in data management, in particular in database theory, and in logic in computer science.
José Luis Moreira da Encarnação is a Portuguese computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and a senior technology and innovation advisor to governments, multinational companies, research institutions and organizations, and foundations. He is involved in the development of research agendas and innovation strategies for socio-economic development with a focus on emerging economies. He is also a member of the Topical Network Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and ICT-related activities of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and the German Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). He is an elected member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy (USA).
Arthur Zimek is a professor in data mining, data science and machine learning at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.
Zehra Meral Özsoyoglu is a Turkish-American computer scientist specializing in databases, including research on query languages, database model, and indexes, and applications of databases in science, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. She is the Andrew R. Jennings Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University.
Gautam Das is a computer scientist in the field of databases research. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Boon Thau Loo is a Singaporean-American computer scientist, college administrator, and technology entrepreneur. He is currently the RCA professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania where he leads a research lab working on distributed systems, and serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. His primary area of research is database systems, with contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases. He helped create C-Store, a column-oriented database, and HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop. Both database systems were commercialized by companies.
Volker Markl is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher.