Panos Vassiliadis' Selected Talks

Here are the resources and information of some selected talks. Plz., click on the title of the talk to see the respective pdf.

2023

Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Simitsis receiving the DOLAP Test of Time Award.
Alkis Simitsis, Spiros Skiadopoulos, Panos Vassiliadis. The History, Present, and Future of ETL Technology (invited). 25th International Workshop on Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data (DOLAP 2023), March 28, 2023, Ioannina, Greece.
[The paper we wrote for the occasion] [The original paper] [The presentation slides] [The Award] [The photos]

We were extremely honored and privileged to receive the Test of Time Award at DOLAP 2023, for our 2002 paper on the conceptual modeling for ETL processes. The occasion was also celebrating the 25 years of DOLAP, and, coincindentaly, it happened to take place in Ioannina, along with EDBT/ICDT 2023. We were also lucky enough to meet many old-time friends [photo] :)

2017

Panos Vassiliadis, reporting on joint work with UoI team. Schema Evolution and Gravitation to Rigidity: a tale of calmness in the lives of structured data. 7th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2017), October 4-6, 2017 - Barcelona. [Click here for a 5-pages paper]

Delighted to meet with old friends and attend MEDI (all this in the middle of the Catalonia referendum crisis and along with the unfortunate incident of a mass theft of laptops from the conference). I am grateful for the hospitality and I wish the best (not sure what this is) to all the friends in Catalonia. The talk surveys recent research results (as of 2017) in the area of schema evolution (click to get to the Schema Biographies project).

2016

Panos Vassiliadis, reporting on joint work with UoI team. Schema evolution for relational databases. 5th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA 2016), July 24 - July 26, Lisbon, Portugal. [click here to watch the video of the talk at vimeo]

Delighted to meet with my old friend Christoph Quix as keynote speakers of the conference and enjoy the wonderful hospitality of the organizers of DATA 2016 (for which I am thankful). The talk surveys recent research results (as of 2016) in the area of schema evolution (click to get to the Schema Biographies project)

2015

Panos Vassiliadis, reporting on joint work with P. Manousis, G. Papastefanatos, I. Skoulis and A. Zarras. Schema evolution for traditional databases and data warehouses. Fifth European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS 2015), July 5 - July 10, Barcelona, Spain.

Delighted to meet with old friends and talk with the students of eBISS at the beautiful Castelldefels in Barcelona. The talk surveys related work and recent research results in the area of schema evolution (click to get to the Schema Biographies project). Click here for a local copy of the Chapter.

2014

Panos Vassiliadis, reporting on joint work with D. Gkesoulis and P. Manousis. Insight gaining from OLAP queries via data movies. Actes des 10e journees francophones sur les Entrepots de Donnees et l'Analyse en Ligne, EDA 2014, Vichy, France, 5-6 Juin, 2014.

It was my real pleasure to visit EDA in 2014 and give a talk on Cinecubes. (click to get to the Cinecubes project)

2013

Panos Vassiliadis (reporting on joint work with G. Papastefanatos, A. Simitsis, P. Manousis and Y. Vassiliou). Jenga and the Art of Data-Intensive Ecosystems Maintenance.. Actes des 9emes journees francophones sur les Entrepots de Donnees et l'Analyse en ligne, EDA 2013, Blois, France, Juin 13-14, 2013.

Actually, due to a strike of airliners, at the end, I never managed to arrive at Blois and give the talk. But the slides are here anyway and they refer to the management of evolution in data-intensive ecosystems... (click to get to the Hecataeus project)