Introduction

Areas of Interest

  • Multi-model data management - modeling, schema inference, evolution, ...
  • Evolution management and propagation of changes
  • Inferred social networks - inference, analysis, ...
  • Past:
    • Linked Data and graph databases
    • XML schema inference
    • Analysis of real-world (XML) data, schemas and operations
    • Similarity of XML data and its exploitation
    • Automatic generating of XML data, XML benchmarking
    • Management of XML data using (object-)relational databases

Workplace

Associate Professor
Department of Software Engineering
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
Malostranske namesti 25
118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

Contact

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Memberships, Projects, and Other Activities

Grants and Projects

  • Principal researcher of GAČR project – Self-Adapting Management of Multi-Model Databases
    [id: GAČR 23-07781S, start: 2023, end: 2025]
  • Supervisor of GAUK project - Self-adaptive management of multi-model databases
    [id: GAUK 292323, start: 2023, end: 2025, researcher: Jachym Bartik]
  • Principal researcher of GAČR project – Unified Management of Multi-Model Data
    [id: GAČR 20-22276S, start: 2020, end: 2022]
  • Co-researcher of TAČR project – System for advanced analytics of large connected data based on simmilarity modeling
    [id: TAČR TH03010276, start: 2018, end: 2020]
  • Co-researcher of Internationales Büro des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung, Bundesrepublik Deutschland project: NoSQL-Net - Managing Linked Data in NoSQL Stores under Schema Evolution
    [id: 01DS13026, start: 2014, end: 2014]
  • Supervisor of GAUK project - Evolution and adaptability of complex applications
    [id: GAUK 1416213, start: 2013, end: 2015, researcher: Marek Polak]
  • Co-researcher of TAČR project – Intelligent library INTLIB
    [id: TA02010182, start: 2012, end: 2015]
  • Supervisor of GAUK project - Efficient processing of Linked Data
    [id: GAUK 4105, start: 2011, end: 2013, researcher: Martin Svoboda]
  • Co-researcher of GAČR project – Handling XML Data in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Environments
    [id: GAČR P202/10/0573, start: 2010, end: 2012]
  • Supervisor of GAUK project - Architecture for trust Linked Data
    [id: GAUK 3110, start: 2010, end: 2012, researcher: Tomas Knap]
  • Supervisor of GAUK project - Evolution and adaptability of XML applications
    [id: GAUK 34710, start: 2010, end: 2010, researcher: Lubos Kulic]
  • Principal researcher of GAČR project – Management of XML data in (object-)relational databases and related issues
    [id: GAČR 201/09/P364, start: 2009, end: 2011]
  • Member of GAČR project - Processing of XML data
    [id: GAČR 201/09/0990, start: 2009, end: 2011]
  • Member of GAČR project - Development of a Native Storage for XML Data
    [id: GAČR 201/06/0756, start: 2006, end: 2008]
  • Member of project SemWeb of the Program of the Information Society of the Thematic Program II of the National Research Program of the Czech Republic - Intelligent Models, Algorithms, Methods and Tools for the Semantic Web Realisation
    [id: 1ET100300419, start: 2005, end: 2008]

Co-organization of Conferences

  • FiCloud ’17: the IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
  • MobiWis ’17: the 14th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems
  • Innovate-Data ’17: the 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications
  • NoSQL-Net ’15: the 2nd International Workshop on NoSQL Databases, Emerging Database Technologies and Applications - in conjunction with DEXA '15
  • NoSQL-Net ’14: the 1st International Workshop on NoSQL Databases and Linked Data Applications - in conjunction with DEXA '14
  • BenchmarX '10: the 2nd International Workshop on Benchmarking of Database Management Systems and Data-Oriented Web Technologies - in conjunction with DASFAA '10
  • X-Schemas’09: the 1st International Workshop on Schema Languages for XML - in conjunction with ADBIS '09
  • MoViX ’09: the 1st International Workshop on Modelling and Visualization of XML and Semantic Web Data - in conjunction with DEXA '09
  • BenchmarX '09: the 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking of XML and Semantic Web Applications - in conjunction with DASFAA '09

Reviews, Chairing

  • PC member of the International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI) 2023 – 2021
  • PC member of the International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS) 2024 - 2012
  • PC member of the ACM Symposium On Applied Computing - Web Technologies (ACM SAC) 2025 - 2010
  • PC member of the International Conference on Information Society and Techology (ICIST) 2021 - 2015
  • PC member of the Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for NoSQL Data Stores (CoMoNoS) 2022 - 2020
  • PC member of IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Computer Science (RCIS) 2019 - 2008
  • External reviewer of the VLDB Journal
  • Reviewer of a special issue of the Big Data Research Journal
  • PC member of the Czech and Slovak conference Data a Znalosti 2017 - 2015
  • PC member of the IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) 2017
  • PC member of conference DATESO 2017 - 2008
  • PC member of the International Conference on Informatics, Health & Technology (ICIHT) 2017
  • PC member of the International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis, and Mining (BigGraphs) 2016
  • PC member of the International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2016, 2015, 2008
  • PC member of the CAiSE Forum 2016
  • PC member of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom) 2015
  • Independent expert for project monitoring for the EU FP7 (December 2014)
  • Reviewer of a special issue of Advanced Techniques for Cloud Data Management of the International Journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge Centered Systems
  • PC member of conference Znalosti 2014
  • Independent expert for evaluation of project proposals for the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (May - June 2014)
  • PC member of the Special Track on Big Data Processing and Management of the International Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) 2014
  • PC member of the East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) 2014, 2013, 2009
  • Reviewer of a special issue of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
  • Independent expert for evaluation of project proposals for the EU 7th Framework Programme (May - June 2013)
  • Reviewer of book Data Processing Techniques in the Era of Big Data, CRC Press, 2013.
  • PC member of ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) 2013
  • Co-chair of the Data Management Track of the 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) 2013
  • PC member of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) 2013, 2012
  • Reviewer of LNCS Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, Springer, 2012
  • PC member of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS) 2012
  • PC member of the FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology (Future Tech) 2012
  • Co-chair of the Data Management Track of the 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) 2012
  • Reviewer of The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, 2011
  • PC member of the International Conference (IAR) 2011
  • PC member of the 1st ACIS/JNU International Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering (CNSI) 2011
  • Reviewer of book "Advanced Applications and Structures in XML Processing: Label Streams, Semantics Utilization and Data Query Technologies", edited by Changqing Li, Duke University, USA and Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Idea Group Publishing, 2009
  • Reviewer of book "Open and Novel Issues in XML Database Applications: Future Directions and Advanced Technologies", edited by Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia, Idea Group Publishing, 2008
  • External reviewer of the Annual Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM) 2005
  • External reviewer of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2004

Foreign Research Stays and Work Experience

  • summer + winter semester 2023: University of Passau, Germany:
    • SS: Teaching of course "Principles of data organisation" (lectures + practicals)
    • WS: Teaching of course "Modern database systems" (lectures + practicals)
  • summer semester 2017: OTH Regensburg, Germany:
    • Teaching of course "Modern database concepts" (lectures + practicals)
  • mid April - mid July 2016 (3 months): Helsinki, Finland - research cooperation with:
    • Jiaheng Lu, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • September - November 2011 (3 months): Melbourne + Sydney, Australia - research cooperation with:
    • Eric Pardede, Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
    • Sherif Sakr, National ICT Australia (NICTA), ATP lab, Sydney, Australia