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Welcome to the Database Group of the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. This site contains information on the research conducted by the faculty and students in our group, their publications, as well as the current schedule of the weekly database seminar.

Best Paper Award: Balder ten Cate and Phokion Kolaitis receive the best-paper award at ICDT'12 for their paper "Learning Schema Mappings" (co-authored with Victor Dalmau).

B. Alexe, M. A. Hernández, L. Popa, and W-C. Tan, "MapMerge: correlating independent schema mappings", VLDB J, 21(2), 2012.
M. Consens, K. Ioannidou, J. LeFevre, N. Polyzotis, "Divergent Physical Design Tuning", To appear in SIGMOD 2012 (Research Track).
B. ten Cate, V. Dalmau and P. G. Kolaitis, "Learning Schema Mappings", In ICDT 2012 (best paper award).
B. ten Cate, G. Fontaine and P. G. Kolaitis, "On the Data Complexity of Consistent Query Answering", In ICDT 2012.
R. Fagin and P. G. Kolaitis, "Local Transformations and Conjunctive-Query Equivalence", To appear in PODS 2012.
I. Jimenez, Q. T. Tran, H. Sanchez and Neoklis Polyzotis, "Kaizen: A Semi-Automatic Index Advisor", To appear in SIGMOD 2012 (Demonstration Track).
P. G. Kolaitis and E. Pema, "A dichotomy in the complexity of consistent query answering for queries with two atoms", ILP 112(3), 2012.
A. Parameswaran, H. García-Molina, H. Park, N. Polyzotis, A. Ramesh, J. Widom, "CrowdScreen: Algorithms for Filtering Data with Humans", To appear in SIGMOD 2012 (Research Track)
K. Schnaitter and and N. Polyzotis, "Semi-Automatic Index Tuning: Keeping DBAs in the Loop", To appear in VLDB 2012.
W. -C. Tan, P. J. Haas, R. L. Mak, C. A. Kieliszewski, P. G. Selinger, P. P. Maglio, S. Glissmann, M. Cefkin, and Y. Li, "Splash: a platform for analysis and simulation of health", IHI 2012.