[eas_cs_seminars] 17th April 2018

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder of today's seminar by Antonio titled "Towards
temporal queries for evolving linked data", which will be held in MB246A
from 2pm to 3pm.

Best,
Luca


On 12 April 2018 at 14:16, Luca Rossi <l.rossi at aston.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Next Tuesday (17/04) Dr. Antonio Garcia-Dominguez will give a talk titled
> "Towards temporal queries for evolving linked data" in MB246A from 2pm to
> 3pm.
>
> We have been a bit too intermittent with the seminars lately, this was due
> to the strike as well as some speakers changing their availability. We're
> going to have a seminar next week (Antonio) and another seminar the week
> after that, plus potentially an additional speaker for May, so stay tuned.
>
> Best,
> Luca
>
> Abstract:
> Engineering firms build linked collections of complex artefacts that
> evolve over time: floor plans, software requirements and architectures,
> control processes, or simulation programs, among others. The execution
> state of a running system can also be seen as a complex graph whose nodes,
> edges and values change over time, e.g. in self-adaptive applications. In
> both cases, we may want to derive metrics or effective workflows from their
> evolution over time, detect when certain situations may have happened, or
> compare snapshots at certain key points in time. With this in mind, I have
> started working on the extension of the Hawk model indexer so it can
> produce a temporal graph from collections of structured and linked files
> stored in standard version control systems, and I have drafted what the
> extended query language would look like. In this talk, I will introduce
> prior works in temporal querying over object-oriented databases, event
> streams and object-oriented system models, present the first steps taken
> with the Greycat many-worlds temporal graph technology, and set out a
> research roadmap for the short- and mid-term future.
>
> --
> Luca Rossi
>
> Lecturer in Computer Science
> School of Engineering and Applied Science
> Aston University
> Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/
> <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
>



-- 
Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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