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Evangelia Daskalaki is an R&D Engineer at the Institute of Computer Science-FORTH. During her MSc, she designed and developed the OtO Matching system that proposed a multi-strategy approach to instance matching. Since 2007 she has been working on the use of instance matching techniques for the European Projects ACGT, plugIT, and EHealthMonitor |
| Mail-to: eva -at- ics.forth.gr |
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Irini Fundulaki is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science-FORTH. She finished her PhD in 2003 on the topic of data integration for structured XML sources. Her research interests lie in the area of Web Data Management and more specifically, on benchmarking RDF engines, RDF provenance and access control. She has worked with Semantic Web Technologies for the last 10 years and has extensive experience with benchmarking RDF engines. She represents FORTH in the LDBC Council and at H2020 HOBBIT Project (Holistic Benchmarking of Big Linked Data). She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Database Management Systems and Web Data Management respectively at the University of Crete and has supervised a number of MSc and BSc students. She is an invited tutor at the European Semantic Web Summer School 2014 and 2015 and gave a course on the SPARQL Query Language and OWL reasoning. |
| Mail-to: fundul -at- ics.forth.gr |
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Melanie Herschel is a Professor at the University of Stutgartt and member of the IPVS team. She completed her PhD in 2007, covering both hierarchical and graph entity resolution techniques. From 2008 to 2009, she worked on linking and integrating government data as well as on data provenance at the IBM Almaden Research Center, research lines she pursued from 2009 to 2011 at the University of Tubingen. She has also co-organized international workshops and has co-authored a book on entity resolution. She has recently presented the Tutorial entitled Entity Resolution in the Web of Data at the CIKM 2013 and WWW 2014 conference editions. She was also invited to the International Workshop on Open Data (WOD 2013) and gave a tutorial on Entity Resolution. |
| Mail-to: melanie.herschel -at- lri.fr |
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Tzanina Saveta is a research and development assistant at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH). She completed her master thesis at the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete. She has worked for SPIMBench and LANCE for her M.Sc. and in the context of the LDBC Project. |
| Mail-to: jsaveta -at- ics.forth.gr |