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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
54
Citations
9890
World Ranking
4633
National Ranking
101

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Koch is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research domain primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a specific focus on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their main topics of work include Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Data Management and Algorithms, Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, Graph Theory and Algorithms, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Data Visualization and Analytics, as well as Cryptography and Data Security.

Christoph Koch has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • High-Dimensional Data Cubes, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Concurrency control for database theorists, 2023, ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • Datalog with Negation and Monotonicity, 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Synthesis of Incremental Linear Algebra Programs, 2020, ACM Transactions on Database Systems

The venues where Christoph Koch frequently publishes include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christoph Koch are:

  • Bas Ketsman
  • Peter Lindner
  • Sachin Basil John
  • Frank Neven
  • Brecht Vandevoort

Best Publications

  • Efficient algorithms for processing XPath queries

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch;Reinhard Pichler

  • Monadic datalog and the expressive power of languages for Web information extraction

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch

  • Fast and Simple Relational Processing of Uncertain Data

    L. Antova;T. Jansen;C. Koch;D. Olteanu

  • Path queries on compressed XML

    Peter Buneman;Martin Grohe;Christoph Koch

  • Conjunctive queries over trees

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch;Klaus U. Schulz

  • Efficient processing of XPath queries

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch;Reinhard Pichler

  • 10106Worlds and Beyond: Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information

    L. Antova;C. Koch;D. Olteanu

  • Conditioning probabilistic databases

    Christoph Koch;Dan Olteanu

  • The Lixto data extraction project: back and forth between theory and practice

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch;Robert Baumgartner;Marcus Herzog

  • MayBMS: a probabilistic database management system

    Jiewen Huang;Lyublena Antova;Christoph Koch;Dan Olteanu

  • The complexity of XPath query evaluation

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch;Reinhard Pichler

  • DBToaster: Higher-order delta processing for dynamic, frequently fresh views

    Y. Ahmad;O.A. Kennedy;C. Koch;M. Nikolic

  • XPath leashed

    Michael Benedikt;Christoph Koch

  • $${10^{(10^{6})}}$$ worlds and beyond: efficient representation and processing of incomplete information

    Lyublena Antova;Christoph Koch;Dan Olteanu

  • Building efficient query engines in a high-level language

    Yannis Klonatos;Christoph Koch;Tiark Rompf;Hassan Chafi

  • Monadic queries over tree-structured data

    G. Gottlob;C. Koch

  • Incremental query evaluation in a ring of databases

    Christoph Koch

  • SPROUT: Lazy vs. Eager Query Plans for Tuple-Independent Probabilistic Databases

    Dan Olteanu;Jiewen Huang;Christoph Koch

  • Schema-based scheduling of event processors and buffer minimization for queries on structured data streams

    Christoph Koch;Stefanie Scherzinger;Nicole Schweikardt;Bernhard Stegmaier

  • DLV - A System for Declarative Problem Solving

    Thomas Eiter;Wolfgang Faber;Christoph Koch;Nicola Leone

  • Chapter 10 – Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries*

    Georg Gottlob;Christoph Koch;Reinhard Pichler

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Gottlob
Georg Gottlob University of Calabria
Dan Olteanu
Dan Olteanu University of Zurich
Peter A. van Aken
Peter A. van Aken Max Planck Society
Wilfried Sigle
Wilfried Sigle Max Planck Society
Johannes Gehrke
Johannes Gehrke Microsoft (United States)
Manfred Rühle
Manfred Rühle Max Planck Society
John C. H. Spence
John C. H. Spence Arizona State University
Lin Gu
Lin Gu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alan Demers
Alan Demers Cornell University
Yan Lu
Yan Lu Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

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