The workshop is in conjunction with ICDE 2016

Call for Participation

KEYS will present a high-quality technical program, including eight talks on various topics including keyword search on XML and relational data, data exploration on geo-textual data and interactive data exploration. and parallel keyword search.

KEYS 2016 Invited Keynote Speakers:

Database Exploration: Problems and Opportunities
Giansalvatore Mecca (University of Basilicata)

ORA-semantics on XML and relational keyword search
Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore)

Fluid Information Discovery: Intent Based Multimodal Exploration of Information Entities
Giulio Jacucci (University of Helsinki)

Querying and Mining Geo-textual Data for Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities
Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)

KEYS 2016 Research papers:

Parallelizing Multiple Keyword Queries over XML Streams
Evandrino Barros, Fernando Ferreira, Alberto Laender

Playing LEGO with JSON: Probabilistic Joins over Attribute-Value Fragments
Manuel Hoffmann, Evica Milchevski, Sebastian Michel

Computing Similar Entity Rankings via Reverse Engineering of Top-k Database Queries
Kiril Panev, Evica Milchevski, Sebastian Michel

A Novel Hierarchical Clustering Framework for Complex Symbolic Data Exploration
Xin Xu

Registration Information

Registration is open with ICDE 2016 website at http://icde2016.fi/registration.php#tabular1 . A discount is given to all registrations until 31 March, 2016, and we encourage you to register early.

In case of questions, please contact Jiaheng Lu.