Second TUC Meeting

by Josep Larriba Pey / on 25 Apr 2013
Location: Munich, Germany
Event dates: 22 Apr 2013 10:00 -- 23 Apr 2021 17:00 (local timezone)

The LDBC consortium are pleased to announce the second Technical User
Community (TUC) meeting.

This will be a two day event in Munich on the 22/23rd April 2013.

The event will include:

  • Introduction to the objectives and progress of the LDBC project.
  • Description of the progress of the benchmarks being evolved through
    Task Forces.
  • Users explaining their use-cases and describing the limitations they
    have found in current technology.
  • Industry discussions on the contents of the benchmarks.

All users of RDF and graph databases are welcome to attend. If you are
interested, please contact: ldbc AT ac DOT upc DOT edu

News: due to the airline strikes at Lufthansa and El Al, Herman
Ravkin (BIG project) and Jesús Lanchas (ACCESO) and Thomas Scharrenbach
(University of Zurich) cannot come, and Norbert Martinez will arrive
only tomorrow. The schedule has been adapted, and may change again, keep
an eye on it.

Agenda

April 22nd

10:00 Registration.

10:30 Josep Lluis Larriba Pey (UPC) - Welcome and Introduction.

10:30 Peter Boncz (VUA): LDBC: goals and status

Social Network Use Cases (with discussion moderated by Josep Lluis Larriba Pey)

11:00 Josep Lluis Larriba Pey (UPC):Social Network Benchmark Task Force

11:30 Gustavo González (Mediapro): Graph-based User Modeling through Real-time Social Streams

12:00 Klaus Großmann (Dshini): Neo4j at Dshini

12:30 Lunch

Semantic Publishing Use Cases (with discussion moderated by Barry Bishop)

13:30 Barry Bishop (Ontotext): Semantic Publishing Benchmark Task Force

14:00 Dave Rogers (BBC): Linked Data Platform at the BBC

14:30 Edward Thomas (Wolters Kluwer): Semantic Publishing at Wolters Kluwer

15:00 coffee
break

Projects Related to LDBC

15:30 Fabian Suchanek (MPI): “YAGO: A large knowledge base from Wikipedia and WordNet”

16:00 Antonis Loziou (VUA): The OpenPHACTS approach to data integration

16:30 Mirko Kämpf (Brox): “GeoKnow - Spatial Data Web project and Supply Chain Use Case”

17:00 End of first day

19:00 Social dinner

April 23rd

Industry & Hardware Aspects

10:00 Xavier Lopez (Oracle): Graph Database Performance an Oracle Perspective.pdf

10:30 Pedro Trancoso (University of Cyprus): “Benchmarking and computer architecture: the research side”

11:00 coffee break

Future Steps and TUC feedback session

11:30 Peter Boncz (VUA) moderates: next steps in the Social Networking Task Force

12:00 Barry Bishop (Ontotext) moderates: next steps in the Semantic Publishing Task Force"

12:30 End of meeting

Slides

The slides of the presentations during the meeting will we posted here.

Logistics

Date

22nd and 23th April 2013

Location

The TUC meeting will be held at LE009 room at LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) located inside the TU Munich campus in Garching, Germany. The address is:

LRZ (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum)
Boltzmannstraße 1
85748 Garching,Germany

Venue

To reach the campus, there are several options, including Taxi and Subway Ubahn

Getting to the TUM Campus from the Munich city center: Subway (U-Bahn)

Take the U-bahn line U6 in the direction of Garching-Forschungszentrum,
exit at the end station. Take the south exit to MI-Building and LRZ on
the Garching Campus. The time of the journey from the city center is
approx.25-30 minutes. In order to get here from the City Center, you
need the Munich XXL ticket that costs around 7.50 euros and covers all
types of transportation for one day. The ticket has to be validated
before ride.

Getting to the TUM Campus from the Munich Airport

1.(except weekends) S-Bahn S8 line in the direction of (Hauptbahnhof)
Munich Central Station until the third stop, Ismaning (approx. 13
minutes). From here Bus Nr. 230 until stop MI-Building on the
Garching Campus. Alternatively: S1 line until Neufahrn, then with
the Bus 690, which stops at Boltzmannstraße.
2.S-Bahn lines S8 or S1 towards City Center until Marienplatz stop.
Then change to U-bahn U6 line towards Garching-Forschungszentrum,
exit at the last station. Take the south exit to MI-Building and
LRZ.
3.Taxi: fare is ca. 30-40 euros.

For cases 1 and 2, before the trip get the One-day Munich Airport ticket
and validate it. It will cover all public transportation for that day.

Getting to the TUM Campus from Garching: U-Bahn

The city of Garching is located on the U6 line, one stop before the
Garching-Forschungszentrum. In order to get from Garching to
Garching-Forschungszentrum with the U-bahn, a special one-way ticket
called Kurzstrecke (1.30 euros) can be purchased.

Finding LRZ@TUM

OpenStreetMap link

Google Maps link

Getting there

Flying: Munich airport is located 28.5 km northeast of Munich. There
are two ways to get from the airport to the city center: suburban train
(S-bahn) and Taxi.

S-Bahn:

S-bahn lines S1 and S8 will get you from the Munich airport to the city
center, stopping at both Munich Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) and
Marienplatz. One-day Airport-City ticket costs 11.20 euros and is
valid for the entire Munich area public transportation during the day of
purchase (the tickets needs to be validated before the journey). S-bahn
leaves every 5-20 minutes and reaches the city center in approx.40
minutes

Taxi: taxi from the airport to the city center costs approximately
50 euros

Accomodation

The following hotels are recommended. The first two are located near the TUM campus in
this google map

Hotel Koenig Ludwig II
Bürgerplatz 3,
Garching, Germany

Tel: +49 89 320 50 46
http://www.hkl.de/home-en/

Hotel Am Park
Bürgermeister-Amon-Straße 2,
Garching, Germany

Tel: +49 89 320 40 84
http://hotel-am-park.com/

Hotel-Pension Carolin
Kaulbachstraße 42
Munich, Germany

Tel: +49 89 34 57 57
http://www.pension-carolin.com/

Cosmopolitan Hotel
Hohenzollernstrasse 5
Munich, Germany

Tel: +49 89 38 38 10
http://www.cosmopolitanhotel.de/en/

Hotel Pullmann
Theodor-Dombart-Straße 4
Munich, Germany

Tel: +49 89 360 99 0
http://www.pullman-hotel-munich.com/default-en.html

Social Dinner

The social dinner will take place at 7 pm on April 22 in Hofbräuhaus
(second floor)

Address: Hofbräuhaus, Platzl 9, Munich

GoogleMaps link

Travel costs

There is some small budget available that can be used to assist some
attendees that are otherwise unable to fund their trip. Please contact
us using the following email address if you would like more
information: ldbcgrants AT ac DOT upc DOT edu

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