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SUMMARY:Viewing the Web as a Distributed Knowledge Base
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Serge Abiteboul\, INRIA Saclay\, France\nAbstract:\nInfo
 rmation of interest may be found on the Web in a variety of forms\, in man
 y systems\, and with different access protocols. A typical user may have i
 nformation on many devices (smartphone\, laptop\, TV box\, etc.)\, many sy
 stems (mailers\, blogs\, Web sites\, etc.)\, many social networks (Faceboo
 k\, Picasa\, etc.). This same user may have access to more information fro
 m family\, friends\, associations\, companies\, and organizations. Today\,
  the control and management of the diversity of data and tasks in this set
 ting are beyond the skills of casual users. Facing similar issues\, compan
 ies see the cost of managing and integrating information skyrocketing.\nWe
  are interested here in the management of such data. Our focus is not on h
 arvesting all the data of a particular user or a group of users and then m
 anaging it in a centralized manner. Instead\, we are concerned with the ma
 nagement of Web data in place in a distributed manner\, with a possibly la
 rge number of autonomous\, heterogeneous systems collaborating to support 
 certain tasks.\nOur thesis is that managing the richness and diversity of 
 user-centric data residing on the Web can be tamed using a holistic approa
 ch based on a distributed knowledge base. All Web informations are represe
 nted as logical facts\, and Web data management tasks as logical rules. We
  discuss Webdamlog\, a variant of datalog for distributed data management 
 that we use for this purpose. The automatic reasoning povided by its infer
 ence engine\, operating over the Web knowledge base\, greatly benefits a v
 ariety of complex data management tasks that currently require intense wor
 k and deep expertise.\nThis work is part of the Webdam ERC project.\n\nBio
 :\nSerge Abiteboul\, Telecom Paris\, PhD computer science\, USC Los Angele
 s\, and Thèse d’Etat\, University of Paris Sud. He has held professor p
 ositions at Stanford and Ecole Polytechnique. He is one of the co-authors 
 of Foundations of Databases\, and\, recently\, of Web Data Management. He 
 co-founded in 2000 a start-up\, named Xyleme. He received the 1998 ACM SIG
 MOD Innovation Award. He has been program chair of a number of conferences
  including ACM PODS-95\, ICALP-94\, ICDT-90\, ECDL-99 and VLDB-09\, ICDE-1
 1\, track of WWW-12. He has been awarded in 2008 an ERC Advanced Grant\, n
 amely Webdam\, on Foundations of Web Data Management. He is a member of th
 e French Academy of Sciences since 2008.
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