The workshop on foundations of databases and AI takes place on January 29-30, 2025 at TU Wien.

Programme & Schedule

Day 1 - January 29 at

Seminarraum Argentinierstraße in Argentinierstraße 8

9:30 - Session 1

Welcome
Pablo Barceló: The Role of Logic in Advancing Machine Learning: Three Case Studies

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30 - Session 2

Leonid Libkin: Things we recently learned about new graph languages
Wim Martens: Programming in the Large with Data

13:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - Session 3

Floris Geerts: Query Evaluation with Neural Access Patterns
Timo Camillo Merkl: Partition Constraints for Conjunctive Queries: Bounds and Worst-Case Optimal Joins

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00 - Session 4

Andreas Pieris: Explaining Answers to Datalog Queries
Emanuel Sallinger: The Neuro-symbolic Chase: From LLMs to Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Day 2 - January 30 at

FAV HS 3 Zemanek in Favoritenstraße 9

9:30 - Session 1

Filip Murlak: Bridging the gap between static analysis and ontology-based reasoning
Sanja Lukumbuzya: On the Complexity and Expressiveness of Ontology-Mediated Queries with Closed Predicates: Capturing coNP

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30 - Session 2

Przemek Wałęga: Temporal Graph Neural Networks and Their Expressiveness
Matthias Lanzinger: Graph Motif Parameters for Complexity, Expressivity and Representation

13:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - Session 3

Independent break-out sessions

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00 - Session 4

Reinhard Pichler: Avoiding Materialisation for Guarded Aggregate Queries

Venue & Directions

The workshop will be held at TU Wien. The two days are held in different buildings (see the links in the schedule). Both are in the same area and easily accessible by public transportation. In particular, both are a short walk away from the U-Bahn Stations Karlsplatz and Taubstummengasse.

Dinner Event Wednesday

The dinner on Wednesday will take start 8PM at 10er Marie (google maps). If you did not yet RSVP but would like to join please get in touch with one of the organisers.