Professional Activities

Journals

• Associate Editor, Data & Knowledge Engineering (2018 - 2023).

• Editorial Board Member, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (since 2017).

• Advisory Board Member, Information Systems journal, Elsevier (since 2016).

Conferences

2015 - Present

1. Senior PC Member for ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2022.

2. Program Committee Co-Chair for the 27th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2022.

3. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Track PC Co-Chair, and Senior PC Member for ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021.

4. Senior PC Member for the 40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2021.

5. Program Committee member for the 39th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2020.

6. Program Committee member for the 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2019.

7. Publication Co-Chair for the 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2018.

8. Program Committee member for the 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2018.

9. Program Committee member for the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2017.

10. Program Committee member for the 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2017.

11. Program Committee member for the 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2016.

12. Program Committee Co-Chair for the 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2015.

13. Program Committee member for the 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015.

2014

1. Demonstration Co-Chair and Program Committee member for the 40th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2014.

2. Program Committee member for the 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2014.

3. Program Committee member for the 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014.

4. Publication and Finance Co-Chair for the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2014.

5. Program Committee member for the 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2014.

6. Program Committee member for the 25th International Conference on Database Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2014.

7. Program Committee member for the 10th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), 2014.

2013

1. Program Committee member for the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2013.

2. Program Committee member for the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2013.

3. Program Committee member for the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013.

4. Program Committee member for the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2013.

5. Program Committee member for the 24th International Conference on Database Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2013.

6. Program Committee member for the 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2013.

7. Program Committee member for the 9th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), 2013.

8. Program Committee member for the 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS), 2013.

9. Program Committee member for Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Healthcare (DARE), in conjunction with CIKM 2013.

2012

1. Program Committee member for the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2012.

2. Program Committee member for the 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2012.

3. Program Committee member for the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2012.

4. Demonstration and Posters Co-Chair for the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2012.

5. Program Committee member for the 23rd International Conference on Database Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2012.

6. Program Committee member for the 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2012.

7. Program Committee member for the 9th International Workshop on Information Integration (IIWeb), in conjunction with SIGMOD 2012.

8. Program Committee member for the International Workshop on Spatio Temporal data Integration and Retrieval (STIR), in conjunction with ICDE 2012.

9. Program Committee member for the 8th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), 2012.

2011

1. Program Committee member for the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2011.

2. Program Committee member for ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2011.

3. Program Committee member for the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2011.

4. Program Committee member for the 22nd International Conference on Database Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2011.

5. Program Committee member for the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2011.

6. Program Committee member for the International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS), 2011.

2010

1. Local Arrangement Co-Chair for the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2010.

2. Program Committee Co-Chair for the 7th International XML Database Symposium (XSym), in conjunction with VLDB 2010.

3. Program Committee member for the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010.

4. Program Committee member for the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2010.

5. Program Committee member for the 21th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2010.

6. Program Committee member for the 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2010.

7. Program Committee member for the 7th International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences (DILS), 2010.

8. Program Committee member for the International Workshop on Massive Data Analytics over the Cloud (MDAC2010), in conjunction with WWW 2010.

2009

1. Program Committee member for the 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2009), 2009.

2. Program Committee member for the 8th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE2009), in conjunction with SIGMOD 2009.

3. Program Committee member for the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2009.

4. Program Committee member for the 3rd International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC), in conjunction with DEXA 2009.

5. Program Committee member for the 7th International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb09), in conjunction with IJCAI 2009.

6. Program Committee member for the 6th International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences (DILS), 2009.

2008

1. Program Committee member for the 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2008), 2008.

2. Program Committee member for the 10th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM2008), in conjunction with CIKM 2008.

3. Program Committee member for the 7th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE2008), in conjunction with SIGMOD 2008.

4. Program Committee member for the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2008.

5. Program Committee member for the 3rd International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC), in conjunction with DEXA 2008.

6. Program Committee member for the 5th International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences (DILS), 2008.

7. Program Committee member for the 12th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), 2008.

2007

1. Program Committee member for the VLDB 2007 PhD Workshop, in conjunction with VLDB 2007.

2. Program Committee member for the 6th International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb2007), in conjunction with AAAI 2007.

3. Program Committee member for the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2007), 2007.

4. Publicity Co-Chair for the 26th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2007.

5. Program Committee member for the 6th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE2007), in conjunction with SIGMOD 2007.

6. Program Committee member for the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2007.

7. Program Committee member for the 2nd International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC), held in conjunction with DEXA, 2007.

2006

1. Program Committee member for the 32th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2006), 2006.

2. Program Committee member for the 4th International XML Database Symposium (XSym2006), 2006.

3. Program Committee member for the First VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (CleanDB2006), 2006.

4. Program Committee member for the 5th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE2006), 2006.

5. Publication Chair for the 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2006), 2006.

6. Program Committee member for the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2006.

7. Program Committee member for the 3rd International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM), held in conjunction with ICDE, 2006.

8. Program Committee member for the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Track on Data Mining), 2006.

9. Program Committee member for the 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb2006), 2006.

2005

1. Program Committee member for the 31th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2005), 2005.

2. Program Committee member for the 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2005), 2005.

3. Geographic Area Chair / Program Committee member for the 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2005), 2005.

4. Program Committee member for the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2005.

5. Program Committee member for the 3rd International Workshop on Biological Data Management (BIDM2005), in conjuction with DEXA 2005.

6. Program Committee member for the International Workshop on Biomedical Data Engineering, in conjunction with ICDE 2005.

7. Program Committee member for the Tenth Asian Computing Science Conference: Data Management on the Web (ASIAN2005), 2005.

2004

1. Program Committee member for the 30th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2004), 2004.

2. Demos and Posters Chair / Program Committee member for the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004), 2004.

3. Program Committee member for the 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2004), 2004.

4. Program Committee member for the 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2004.

5. Program Committee member for the 3rd International Workshop Data Integration on the Web (DIWeb2004), in conjunction with CAiSE 2004.

6. Program Committee member for the 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Track on Internet Data Management), 2004.

2003

1. Program Committee member for the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2003), 2003.

2. Program Committee member for the XML Database Symposium (XSym2003), in conjunction with VLDB 2003.

3. Program Committee member for the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2003), 2003.

4. Program Committee member for the 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2003), 2003.

2002

1. Program Committee member for the 28th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2002), 2002.

2. Workshop Co-Chair for the First VLDB Workshop on Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Tools, and Techniques (EEXTT2002), in conjunction with VLDB 2002.

3. Workshop Chair for the Second International Workshop on the Electronic Business Hubs (WEBH2002), in conjunction with DEXA 2002.

4. Program Committee member for the 2nd International Workshop on Data Integration over the Web (DIWEB), 2002.

5. Program Committee member for the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2002), 2002.

6. Publication Chair for the Third International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2002), 2002.

7. Program Committee member for the 13th Australasian Database Conference (ADC2002), 2002.

1995 - 2001

1. Workshop Chair for the First International Workshop on the Electronic Business Hubs (WEBH2001), in conjunction with DEXA 2001.

2. Program Committee member for the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2001), 2001.

3. Program Committee member for the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ( ER99 ), 1999.

4. Program Committee member for the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ( ER98 ), 1998.

5. Organizing Committee member (Local Arrangements Chair) for the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 1998.

6. Organizing Committee member (Finance Chair) for the 4th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 1995.

7. Organizing Committee member for 4th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD), 1995.

8. Referee for international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, VLDB Journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering.