ToK Workshop and F2F Meeting in Coimbra

The DEVASSES ToK Workshop V was held in the University of Coimbra (UC) in February 1-2. It was also time for DEVASSES researchers to meet Face-to-Face, as the project reaches its middle point.

The meeting was particularly interesting to discuss the first half of the project, evaluating and discussing the cooperation works developed, and to determine the improvements necessary to the second half. It was also time to review the status of the working packages of the project and plan towards the tasking that are starting and the deliverables that should be prepared in the future.

The Transfer of Knowledge Workshop featured a a full slate of presentations headlined by the invited talk by Miguel Matos (HASLab – U. Minho), entitled “Scaling a SQL Database” and which focused on the work that is being developed in their group to develop systems based on SQL with extreme horizontal scalability. The presentation set the tone for discussion in terms of large scale data management systems, and their role in the target systems of the project.

There were other 14 presentations by the project members, the majority of which (9) presented works that are fruit of the cooperation between multiple DEVASSES partners. Some presentations served also to introduce new members of the project or to show new ideas for future collaborations. The complete list of presentations can be found here.

The meeting was strategically scheduled to take advantage of ongoing secondments of researchers both in UC (details here and here) and in UNIFI (details here). From this resulted that the workshop had an average attendance superior to 20 researchers, including project members and other UC researchers and students.

There was also the opportunity to present and advertise the second edition of the RADIANCE workshop, discuss improvements and potential similar initiatives. Future collaborations were also discussed, including open and future project calls and Europe-Brazil collaborations.

Wrapping up the first day, there was a Team-Building happy-hour, followed by a calm dinner that featured some of the traditional food from Portugal.

The DEVASSES team enthusiastically looks forward to the second half of the project!