PhD Theses
MSc Theses
  • Aditya Iftikar Riaddy: A Greedy Algorithm for Ingredient Substitution using a Graph-Based Recipe Model
    MSc thesis 2024, advised by Anton Dignös and Johann Gamper.
  • Marcelo Eduardo Redoschi: Extraction of Time Series Features from Heterogeneous Data
    MSc thesis 2023, advised by Anton Dignös.
  • Claudio Contini: Synthetic generation of realistic time series
    MSc thesis 2022, advised by Matteo Ceccarello.
  • Xiaozhe Yao: Implementing Learned Cardinality Estimation in a Database Systems Context
    MSc thesis 2022 (University of Zurich), advised by Michael H. Böhlen (UZH), Anton Dignös, and Qing Chen (UZH).
  • Kostas Tzoumpas: Reconstruction of multivariate time series in a smart city context using Deep Learning models
    MSc thesis 2021, advised by Matteo Ceccarello and Miraglio Pietro.
  • Ibrahim Al Hazwani: Brickable: an NLP pipeline for LEGO® centered forum
    MSc thesis 2021, advised by Mouna Kacimi and Matteo Ceccarello.
  • Philipp Rassele: Visual Analysis of Health and Disease Data in the CHRIS Study
    MSc thesis 2021, advised by Johann Gamper and Christian Fuchsberger.
  • Aristea Ibershimi: A Data Warehouse Solution to Support the Analysis of Amazon Seller Data
    MSc thesis 2021, advised by Johann Gamper and Anton Dignös.
  • Alessandro Dal Gobbo: An Analytical Software for Amazon Sellers
    MSc thesis 2021, advised by Johann Gamper and Anton Dignös.
  • Silvia Fracalossi: Time Series Data Management: An Analysis of Databases for a Use Case of Industrial Printers' Sensor Data
    MSc thesis 2020, advised by Anton Dignös and Johann Gamper.
  • Jamal Mohammed: Transfer Learning for Failure Prediction using Approximately Bayesian Ensembling of Neural Networks
    MSc thesis 2020, advised by Johann Gamper and Anton Dignös.
  • Pratheesh Kumar Murugesan: Eye-Tracking in Dashboards: Analysis of User Behaviour
    MSc thesis 2020, advised by Matteo Ceccarello.
  • Onyango Edgar Obare: Using Leap Motion for Gesture-Based Querying of Cultural Assets
    MSc thesis 2018, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Peter Moser: Range Merge Joins for Temporal Data
    MSc thesis 2017, advised by Johann Gamper and Anton Dignös.
  • Stuefer Manuel: Applying Decision Theory Techniques on Selection Ordering
    MSc thesis 2017, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Mitterer Hannes: Efficient Missing Value Imputation and Outlier Detection in continuous streams of Time Series Data
    MSc thesis 2016, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Sukvietyte Viktorija: A Relational Implementation of Multimodal Road Networks
    MSc thesis 2016, advised by Johann Gamper and Chondrogiannis Theodoros.
  • Julian Prenner: Optimizing the Performance of mruby's RiteVM.
    MSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Kevin Wellenzohn: Imputation of Missing Values in Highly Correlated Streams of Time Series Data
    MSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper and Anton Dignös.
  • Giovanni Mahlknecht : Optimizing the computation of parsimonious temporal aggregation queries
    MSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Monika Agnieszka Tomkowicz: Frost Prediction in Apple Orchards Based Upon Time Series Models
    MSc thesis 2014, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Johnnes Erschbamer : Adjusting the Layout to the Interface Orientation in NetSnips
    MSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Andreas Heinisch : Parallel Computation of Ad-hoc Multi-Dimensional Aggregates.
    MSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Philipp Hofer: Large-Scale Temporal Aggregation Using MapReduce.
    MSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Thomas Gummerer: Designing a Fast Index Format for Git
    MSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Christian Ammendola: Late Initialization for Theta-Constrained Multi-Dimensional Aggregation.
    MSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Gytis Tumas: A Heuristic Itinerary Planning Approach for Objects With Time Constraints
    MSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Anton Dignös: Temporal Unification in Database Management Systems
    MSc thesis 2010, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Daniel Taliun: Data Indexing for the Interactive Visualization of Genome-Wide Association Studies.
    MSc thesis 2010, advised by Johann Gamper and Christian Fuchsberger.
  • Sarunas Marciuska: The Allocation of Dynamic Objects Within an Isochrone
    MSc thesis 2010, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Komskis Vaidas: An Experimental Evaluation of Tree Edit Distance Algorithms
    MSc thesis 2010, advised by Nikolaus Augsten.
BSc Theses
  • Lucia Maninetti: A Relational Database Model for Storing and Querying Biological Trait Data
    BSc thesis 2023, advised by Johann Gamper and Ozan Kahramanogullari.
  • Deivid Bardhi: Predictive Maintenance for Industrial Equipment - an Experimental Evaluation
    BSc thesis 2022, advised by Anton Dignös and Johann Gamper.
  • Francesco Piccoli: Interactive exploration of time series through motif discovery
    BSc thesis 2021, advised by Matteo Ceccarello and Johann Gamper.
  • Thomas Mannhart: A General-purpose Range Join Algorithm for PostgreSQL
    BSc thesis 2020 (University of Zurich), advised by Michael H. Böhlen (UZH) and Anton Dignös.
  • Manuel Pillon: Optimising Energy Efficiency of Pumping Stations
    BSc thesis 2020, advised by Anton Dignös.
  • Ulrike Niederstätter: User-Friendly Data Analytics: An Interactive Map of South Tyrol to Visualise & Analyse Hail-Damage
    BSc thesis 2020, advised by Anton Dignös and Johann Gamper.
  • Daniel Summerer: A Business Application for Automatizing the Creation of Offers for Electrical Systems
    BSc thesis 2020, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Anna Debiasi: Time Series Resampling: A first Step towards the Implementation of an Automatic Anomaly Detection System
    BSc thesis 2020, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Andriy Polulyakh: Anomaly detection in time series data using one-class classifier
    BSc thesis 2020, advised by Anton Dignös and Johann Gamper.
  • Christian Roggia: How to extract frame sequences in the manga context
    BSc thesis 2020, advised by Fabio Persia.
  • Giovanni Capone: Routing Problems and Solutions
    BSc thesis 2019, advised by Fabio Persia.
  • Elisa Vogl: SmartChain - Development and design of a booking platform in the hotel industry
    BSc thesis 2019, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Werner Sperandio: CiteLink: a Software Tool for Finding Missing Citations in Scopus
    BSc thesis 2019, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Burgio Giulia: Video Similarity Analysis based on MPEG-7 Visual Features
    BSc thesis 2018, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Fracalossi Silvia: Wequal, a web project for the multidimensional environmental quality monitoring related to green infrastructures' construction
    BSc thesis 2018, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Grabocka Mikel: A Best-Child Best-Silbling Search Strategy for Orienteering with Category Constraints
    BSc thesis 2018, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Nardini Matteo: Docker as a service on the blockchain
    BSc thesis 2018, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Gelsi Roberto: Correcting and Improving the Supplier Rating System at GKN Sinter Metals
    BSc thesis 2017, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Bellon Romeo: Tcpcrypt, towards a macOS network kernel extension implementation
    BSc thesis 2017, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Roggia Matteo: Embedding NoSQL Query Functionality into the Ethereum blockchain
    BSc thesis 2017, advised by Sven Helmer.
  • Andriy Tyyko: OnePMS : a system to support the Asset Servicing Business
    BSc thesis 2017, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Matthias Keim: Automated Traffic Sign Recognition for Street Videos
    BSc thesis 2017, advised by Anton Dignös.
  • Nicola Giorgi: Design and Implementation of a Web Application for the Production Management of Snow-Machines
    BSc thesis 2016, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Ciprian Ettore: Discovering related terms on a large Solr document database
    BSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Lunger Christine: Computing all paths between two locations with a maximal time budget
    BSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Tobias Bernard: Interactive Visualization of Temperature Data Over Time
    BSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper and Anton Dignös.
  • Daniela Geiser: Entwicklung eines Moduls zur Verwaltung des Obstbestandes in Ombis
    BSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Luca Bellettati: A time-dependent data model for multi-modal networks.
    BSc thesis 2015, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Sonia Frei: Purchase information system implementation for the Cockpit portal
    BSc thesis 2014, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Benjamin Gruber: Interactive Computation of Isochrones
    BSc thesis 2014, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Florian Michaeler: A Graphical User Interface : for Sequenced Event Set Pattern Matching
    BSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Kevin Wellenzohn: An Efficient Heuristic for Orienteering with Categories
    BSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper and Sven Helmer.
  • Manuel Stuefer: COMINO : efficient shortest path computation in multimodal networks for smarter mobility
    BSc thesis 2013, advised by Johann Gamper and Sven Helmer.
  • Myriam Viertler: A Comparative Analysis of QlikView and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite
    BSc thesis 2012, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Shogoufah Mohammad Akram: A Comparison of Different Implementations of Temporal Coalescing in Relational Database Systems
    BSc thesis 2012, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Patrick Clara: Optimizing the MicroMet Preprocessor for the Temporal Interpolation of Seasonal Time Series Data
    BSc thesis 2012, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Michael Gurschler: Compression of Time Series Data Using Multiple Granularities
    BSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Patrizia Gufler: A Business Intelligence Solution for an Urban Utility Company
    BSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Philipp Hofer: Extending the Bitemporal DBMS Tiger
    BSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Peterpaul Klammer: A Tool for Converting Public Transport Schedules
    BSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Michael Mairegger: Implementation of a scheduling component in a production management system
    BSc thesis 2011, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Dejori Michael: Clinical Data Warehousing with QlikView: A Case Study
    BSc thesis 2010, advised by Johann Gamper.
  • Villscheider Andreas: Efficient Joins With Reference Sets
    BSc thesis 2010, advised by Nikolaus Augsten.
News
30.09.2024
Anton Dignös appointed PC Co-Chair of DaWak 2025

Anton has been appointed PC Co-Chair of DaWak 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand.


30.07.2024
Book chapter published in Synthetic Promoters

The book chapter "Chemical Reaction Models in Synthetic Promoter Design in Bacteria" by O. Kahramanogullari has been published in Synthetic Promoters. [link]


28.05.2024
Demo accepted at VLDB 2024

The demo paper "SEER: An End-to-End Toolkit for Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems in Monitoring Applications" by L. Althaus, M. Khayati, A. Khelifati, A. Dignös, D. Difallah, and P. Cudre-Mauroux has been accepted for publication at VLDB 2024 in Guangzhou, China.


10.05.2024
Presentation accepted at ISBRA 2024

Our paper "Causal Analysis in Bio-pathways via Stochastically Simulated Perturbations" by O. Kahramanogullari, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper has been accepted for presentation at ISBRA 2024 in Kunming, China.


09.05.2024
Paper accepted in ACM Computing Surveys

Our paper "Self-tuning Database Systems: A Systematic Literature Review of Automatic Schema Design and Tuning" by M. Mozaffari, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and U. Störl has been accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.


08.05.2024
Paper accepted at DAWAK 2024

Our paper "Comparison of Measures for Characterizing the Difficulty of Time Series Classification" by A. Charane, M. Ceccarello, and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication at DAWAK 2024 in Naples, Italy.


08.05.2024
Paper accepted at DAWAK 2024

Our paper "QPAVE: A Multi-task Question Answering Approach for Fine-Grained Product Attribute Value Extraction" by K. Sabeh, M. Kacimi, and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication at DAWAK 2024 in Naples, Italy.


08.05.2024
Paper accepted in Information Systems Frontiers

Our paper "Efficiently labeling and retrieving temporal anomalies in relational databases" by C. Khnaisser, H. Hamrouni, D. B. Blumenthal, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Frontiers.


19.04.2024
Paper accepted at LPAR 2024

Our paper "Proof Search in Deep Inference: The Need for Shallow Inference" by O. Kahramanogullari has been accepted for publication at LPAR 2024 in Port Louis, Mauritius.


15.03.2024
Paper accepted at DASFAA 2024

Our paper "Parallel Processing of Temporal Anti-Joins in Memory" by I. Reppas, M. Mirabi, L. Fathi, C. Binnig, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication at DASFAA 2024 in Gifu, Japan.


31.01.2024
Paper accepted at DOLAP 2024

Our paper "Shapelets Evaluation using Silhouettes for Time Series Classification" by A. Charane, M. Ceccarello, and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication at DOLAP 2024 in Paestum, Italy.


11.07.2023
Best Paper Award at SSDBM 2023

Our paper "Indexing Temporal Relations for Range-Duration Queries" by M. Ceccarello, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and C. Khnaisser has been selected for the best paper award at SSDBM 2023 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Congratulations!


01.07.2023
Paper accepted at VLDB 2023

Our paper "TSM-Bench: Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications" by A. Khelifati, M. Khayati, A. Dignös, D. Difallah, and P. Cudre-Mauroux has been accepted for publication at VLDB 2023 in Vancouver, Canada.


06.09.2022
Best Paper Award at ADBIS 2022

Our paper "Querying Temporal Anomalies in Healthcare Information Systems and Beyond" by C. Khnaisser, H. Hamrouni, D. B. Blumenthal, A. Dignös, and J. Gamper has been selected for the best paper award at ADBIS 2022 in Torino, Italy. Congratulations!


15.08.2022
Paper accepted at VLDB 2023

Our paper "Fast and Scalable Mining of Time Series Motifs with Probabilistic Guarantees" by M. Ceccarello and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication at VLDB 2023 in Vancouver, Canada.


04.03.2022
Paper accepted in Information Sciences

Our paper "Enumerating dissimilar minimum cost perfect and error-correcting bipartite matchings for robust data matching" by D. B. Blumenthal, S. Bougleux, A. Dignös and J. Gamper has been accepted in Information Sciences. [link]


12.01.2022
Paper published in The Journal of Supercomputing

Our paper "APT-Dt-KC: advanced persistent threat detection based on kill-chain model" by M. Panahnejad and M. Mirabi has been published in The Journal of Supercomputing. [link]


08.10.2021
Former PhD student David B. Blumenthal won the best PhD student award

We congratulate our former PhD student David B. Blumenthal for winning the best PhD student award from the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano for the year 2020. Congratulations David!


01.10.2021
Paper published in The Journal of Supercomputing

Our paper "Controller placement in software defined networks using multi-objective antlion algorithm" by M. M. Kazemian and M. Mirabi has been published in The Journal of Supercomputing. [link]


02.08.2021
Paper accepted in The VLDB Journal

Our paper "Leveraging Range Joins for the Computation of Overlap Joins" by A. Dignös, M. H. Böhlen, J. Gamper, C. S. Jensen and P. Moser has been accepted for publication in The VLDB Journal.


10.06.2021
Paper published in The Journal of Supercomputing

Our paper "Efficient XML data placement schemes over multiple mobile wireless broadcast channels" by S. F. Ozonbolagh and M. Mirabi has been published in The Journal of Supercomputing. [link]


19.05.2021
Paper accepted in Information Systems

Our paper "The Role of Local Dimensionality Measures in Benchmarking Nearest Neighbor Search" by M. Ceccarello and Martin Aumüller has been accepted for publication in Information Systems.


29.03.2021
Paper accepted in Information Systems

Our paper "Scalable generalized median graph estimation and its manifold use in bioinformatics, clustering, classification, and indexing" by D. B. Blumenthal, N. Boria, S. Bougleux, L. Brun, J. Gamper and B. Gaüzère has been accepted for publication in Information Systems.


03.02.2021
Demo accepted at EDBT 2021

Our demo paper "Correlation graph analytics for stock time series data" by T. Liu, P. Coletti, A. Dignös, J. Gamper and M. Murgia has been accepted for publication at EDBT 2021 in Nicosia, Cyprus.


18.11.2020
Paper accepted in The VLDB Journal

Our paper "Cache-Efficient Sweeping-Based Interval Joins for Extended Allen Relation Predicates" by D. Piatov, S. Helmer, A. Dignös, and F. Persia has been accepted for publication in The VLDB Journal.


03.10.2020
Paper accepted at ICDE 2021

Our research paper "Approximating multidimensional range counts with maximum error guarantees" by M. Shekelyan, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, and M. Garofalakis has been accepted for publication at ICDE 2021 in Chania, Greece.


06.08.2020
Paper published in TKDD

Our paper "A General Coreset-Based Approach to Diversity Maximization under Matroid Constraints" by M. Ceccarello, A. Pietracaprina, and G. Pucci has been published in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. [link]


01.07.2020
Johann Gamper Demo Co-Chair of ICDE 2021

Johann has been appointed Demo Co-Chair of ICDE 2021 in Chania, Crete, Greece.


01.07.2020
Johann Gamper re-nominated Vice-Rector of unibz

We congratulate Johann for being re-nominated vice-rector for research and innovation at unibz. [more]


07.05.2020
PhD defense of Giovani Mahlknecht

Giovani successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Temporal Aggregation for Data Analytics". Congratulations Giovanni!


10.02.2020
Paper accepted in The VLDB Journal

Our paper "Finding k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap" by T. Chondrogiannis, P. Bouros, J. Gamper, U. Leser, and D. B. Blumenthal has been accepted for publication in The VLDB Journal.


01.12.2019
Paper accepted in Future Generation Computer Systems

Our paper "Improving orienteering-based tourist trip planning with social sensing" by F. Persia, G. Pilato, M. Ge, P. Bolzoni, D. D'Auria, and S. Helmer has been accepted for publication in Future Generation Computer Systems.


09.07.2019
PhD defense of David B. Blumenthal

David successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "New Techniques for Graph Edit Distance Computation". Congratulations David!


08.06.2019
Paper accepted at SSTD 2019

Our research paper "Period Index: A Learned 2D Hash Index for Range and Duration Queries" by A. Behrend, A. Dignös, J. Gamper, P. Schmiegelt, H. Voigt, M. Rottmann, and K. Kahl has been accepted for publication at SSTD 2019 in Vienna, Austria.


06.06.2019
Demo accepted at SSTD 2019

Our demo paper "HOTPERIODS: Visual Correlation Analysis of Interval Data" by N. Duran, G. Mahlknecht, A. Dignös and J. Gamper has been accepted for publication at SSTD 2019 in Vienna, Austria.


26.05.2019
Paper accepted in The VLDB Journal

Our paper "Comparing heuristics for graph edit distance computation" by D. B. Blumenthal, N. Boria, J. Gamper, S. Bougleux, and L. Brun has been accepted for publication in The VLDB Journal.


27.02.2019
Paper accepted at GbRPR 2019

Our paper "GEDLIB: A C++ Library for Graph Edit Distance Computation" by D. B. Blumenthal, S. Bougleux, J. Gamper, and L. Brun has been accepted for publication at GbRPR 2019 in Tours, France. Check out the code here.


16.01.2019
Paper accepted at VLDB 2019

Our paper "Snapshot semantics for temporal mutliset relations" by A. Dignös, B. Glavic, X. Niu, J. Gamper, and M. H. Böhlen has been accepted for publication at VLDB 2019 in Los Angeles, USA.


01.10.2018
Johann Gamper nominated Vice-Rector of unibz

We congratulate Johann for being nominated vice-rector for research and innovation at unibz. [more]


01.08.2018
SSDBM 2018 in Bozen-Bolzano

We successfully concluded the SSDBM in Bozen-Bolzano. Pictures of the conference and mountain tour are available here.



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