Title: Approaches to Distributed RDF Data Management and SPARQL Processing

Speaker: Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo

Abstract

Resource Description Framework (RDF) has been proposed for modeling Web objects as part of developing the "semantic web", but its usage has extended beyond this original objective. As the volume of RDF data has increased, the usual scalability issues have arisen and solutions have been developed for distributed/parallel processing of SPARQL queries over large RDF datasets. RDF has also gained attention as a way to accomplish data integration, leading to federated approaches. In this talk I will provide an overview of work in these two areas.

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Bio

M. Tamer Özsu is a University Professor of Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo. His research is in data management focusing on large-scale data distribution and management of non-traditional data. His publications include the book Principles of Distributed Database Systems (co-authored with Patrick Valduriez), which is now in its fourth edition. He has also edited, with Ling Liu, the Encyclopedia of Database Systems which is in its second edition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is an elected member of the Science Academy of Turkey, and a member of Sigma Xi. He was awarded the Canadian Computer Science Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award in 2015, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2006, and The Ohio State University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008.