Publications related to Object–relational impedance mismatch

Accurate and agile flight with winged drones

Drones hold promise to assist in civilian tasks. To realize this application, future drones must operate within large cities, covering large distances while navigating within cluttered urban landscapes. The increased efficiency of winged drones over rotary ...

EPFL2024

AiiDA-defects: an automated and fully reproducible workflow for the complete characterization of defect chemistry in functional materials

Nicola Marzari, Sokseiha Muy, Conrad Johnston

Functional materials that enable many technological applications in our everyday lives owe their unique properties to defects that are carefully engineered and incorporated into these materials during processing. However, optimizing and characterizing thes ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Graph integration of structured, semistructured and unstructured data for data journalism

Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Jingmao You

Digital data is a gold mine for modern journalism. However, datasets which interest journalists are extremely heterogeneous, ranging from highly structured (relational databases), semi-structured (JSON, XML, HTML), graphs (e.g., RDF), and text. Journalists ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Sampling-Based AQP in Modern Analytical Engines

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca

As the data volume grows, reducing the query execution times remains an elusive goal. While approximate query processing (AQP) techniques present a principled method to trade off accuracy for faster queries in analytics, the sample creation is often consid ...

ACM2022

Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates

Christoph Koch, Bas Ketsman

The isolation level Multiversion Read Committed (RC), offered by many database systems, is known to trade consistency for increased transaction throughput. Sometimes, transaction workloads can be safely executed under RC obtaining the perfect isolation of ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Representation Learning for Multi-relational Data

Eda Bayram

Recent years have witnessed a rise in real-world data captured with rich structural information that can be better depicted by multi-relational or heterogeneous graphs. However, research on relational representation learning has so far mostly focused on th ...

EPFL2021

Holistic, Efficient, and Real-time Cleaning of Heterogeneous Data

Styliani Asimina Giannakopoulou

Data cleaning has become an indispensable part of data analysis due to the increasing amount of dirty data. Data scientists spend most of their time preparing dirty data before it can be used for data analysis. Existing solutions that attempt to automate t ...

EPFL2021

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Multilingual Training and Adaptation in Speech Recognition

Sibo Tong

State-of-the-art acoustic models for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and often require thousands of hours of transcribed speech data during training. Therefore, building multilingual ...

EPFL2020

A hybrid framework for industrial data storage and exploitation

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Ioannis Tourkogiorgis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

In this paper a hybrid framework is illustrated, with a software and hardware integration strategy, for an industrial platform that exploits features from a Relational Database (RDB) and Triplestore using the blackboard architectural pattern, ensuring effi ...

Elsevier2019

Electrical Compartmentalization in Neurons

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Willem Anna Mark Wybo, Benjamin Torben-Nielsen

The dendritic tree of neurons plays an important role in information processing in the brain. While it is thought that dendrites require independent subunits to perform most of their computations, it is still not understood how they compartmentalize into f ...

2019

An open platform for Aerosol InfraRed Spectroscopy analysis - AIRSpec

Satoshi Takahama, Matteo Reggente, Rudolf Höhn

AIRSpec is a platform consisting of several chemometric packages developed for analysis of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of atmospheric aerosols. The packages are accessible through a browser-based interface, which also generates the necessary ...

2019

Consolidation of database check constraints

Nikola Obrenovic

Independent modeling of various modules of an information system (IS), and consequently database subschemas, may result in formal or semantic conflicts between the modules being modeled. Such conflicts may cause collisions between the integrated database s ...

2019

Handling probabilistic integrity constraints in pay-as-you-go reconciliation of data models

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Zoltán Miklós

Data models capture the structure and characteristic properties of data entities, e.g., in terms of a database schema or an ontology. They are the backbone of diverse applications, reaching from information integration, through peer-to-peer systems and ele ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Distributed Time Series Analytics

Tian Guo

In recent years time series data has become ubiquitous thanks to affordable sensors and advances in embedded technology. Large amount of time-series data are continuously produced in a wide spectrum of applications, such as sensor networks, medical monitor ...

EPFL2017

Program Analysis and Compilation Techniques for Speeding up Transactional Database Workloads

Mohammad Dashti Rahmat Abadi

There is a trend towards increased specialization of data management software for performance reasons. The improved performance not only leads to a more efficient usage of the underlying hardware and cuts the operation costs of the system, but also is a ga ...

EPFL2017

Mobility Intentions of Foreign Researchers: The Role of Non-economic Motivations

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

Recent contributions suggest that non-economic factors could be important motivational drivers of scientific mobility. We investigate this hypothesis in a sample of foreign researchers in Italy and Portugal, examining their willingness to leave the host co ...

Taylor & Francis2016

Snow hydrology signatures for model identification within a limits-of-acceptability approach

Bettina Schaefli

Discharge simulation from snow-dominated catchments seems to be an easy task. Any spatially explicit precipitation-runoff model coupled to a temperature-index snow model generally yields simulations that mimic well the observed daily discharges. The robust ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Advancing Analytical Tools to Understand Urban Planning: Mapping Controversies around the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Christine Lutringer-Gully

The proposed article suggests that urban studies are in need of new tools to describe and analyze the different “regimes of urbanization” in an increasingly heterogeneous urban world. In order to create dynamic and relational descriptions of contemporary c ...

2016

From Data Quality to Big Data Quality

Gianluigi Viscusi

This article investigates the evolution of data quality issues from traditional structured data managed in relational databases to Big Data. In particular, the paper examines the nature of the relationship between Data Quality and several research coordina ...

2015