DBGroup members have carried out, and are carrying out, research collaborations with important national and international institutions and universities. The table below summarizes the main ongoing and past international collaborations, organized by DBGroup professor.
Sonia Bergamaschi
Institution
Country
Collaboration Type
IBM Almaden Research Center
USA
Joint supervision of master’s and PhD students on Big Data topics (Prof. Jim Spohrer)
University of Michigan – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.
USA
Joint supervision of master’s and PhD students on Big Data topics
Potsdam University – Hasso Plattner Institut
DE
Joint supervision of master’s and PhD students on Big Data, keyword search, and data integration; ERASMUS agreement (Prof. Felix Naumann)
University of North Texas – College of Engineering
USA
Joint supervision of master’s students on automatic annotation of data sources (Prof. Rada Mihalcea)
University of California, Los Angeles – Computer Science Dept.
USA
Joint supervision of PhD students on logical formalization of distributed architectures (Prof. Carlo Zaniolo)
Newcastle University
UK
ERASMUS agreement (Prof. Paolo Missier)
Université Paris Cité
FR
Joint supervision of master’s and PhD students on Big Data topics; ERASMUS agreement (Prof. Themis Palpanas)
Domenico Beneventano
Institution
Country
Collaboration Type
Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin – Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology
DE
Co-participation in the FP-7-SME project: FACIT-SME (Facilitate IT-Providing SMEs)
CIT – Centre for Internet Technologies, University of Sunderland
UK
Co-participation in the FP-7 project: Stasis – Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services
University of Oldenburg
DE
Co-participation in the FP-7 project: Stasis – Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services
Tsinghua University, Beijing
CN
Co-participation in the FP-7 project: Stasis – Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services
Francesco Guerra
Institution
Country
Collaboration Type
University of Zaragoza
ES
International exchange, PhD supervision, joint research, participation in a COST project, and writing of European call proposals (Prof. Raquel Trillo Lado)
Università di Trento
IT
PhD supervision, joint research, participation in a COST project, and writing of European call proposals (Dr. Yannis Velegrakis)
University of Coimbra
PT
Joint research, participation in a COST project, and writing of European call proposals (Prof. Jorge Cardoso)
Newcastle University
UK
Joint research, participation in a COST project (Prof. Paolo Missier)
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
NL
Participation in a COST project, writing of European call proposals (Dr. Peter Schalk)
Laura Po
Institution
Country
Collaboration Type
Computer Science and Systems Engineering Department (DIIS), Universidad de Zaragoza
ES
Joint research: a set of techniques was proposed to group results provided by a traditional search engine into categories based on keyword meaning, formalizing a classification method for search results based on the meaning of input keywords
KMI (Knowledge Media Institute), Milton Keynes
UK
Joint research: lexical annotation algorithms were tested in the context of ontology matching, evaluating their application to results from the SCARLET ontology matcher (scarlet.open.ac.uk), which implements a technique for discovering relations between two concepts using ontologies available online
