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  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to query languages, query optimization and data provenance.

Overview

Val Tannen is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Decision Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Management, Signal Processing, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research work encompasses several main topics, notably Scientific Computing and Data Management, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Logic, Programming, and Type Systems, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Software System Performance and Reliability, Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, and Semantic Web and Ontologies.

Val Tannen has contributed to multiple research papers published in various peer-reviewed venues. Some recent publications include:

  • DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages, 2023, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Semiring Provenance for Fixed-Point Logic, 2021, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Evaluating Datalog over Semirings: A Grounding-based Approach, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • Iterating on multiple collections in synchrony, 2022, Journal of Functional Programming
  • 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

Their research has appeared frequently in venues such as Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Journal of Functional Programming, and Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl).

Val Tannen has collaborated with a recurring group of coauthors, including Mihai Budiu, Frank McSherry, Leonid Ryzhyk, Tej Chajed, and Hangdong Zhao.

In 2013, Val Tannen was recognized as an ACM Fellow for contributions to query languages, query optimization, and data provenance.

Best Publications

  • Provenance semirings

    Todd J. Green;Grigoris Karvounarakis;Val Tannen

  • The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology.

    Stephen A Goff;Matthew Vaughn;Sheldon McKay;Eric Lyons

  • Models for Incomplete and Probabilistic Information.

    Todd J. Green;Val Tannen

  • Principles of programming with complex objects and collection types

    Peter Buneman;Shamim Naqvi;Val Tannen;Limsoon Wong

  • Inheritance as implicit coercion

    Val Breazu-Tannen;Thierry Coquand;Carl A. Gunter;Andre Scedrov

  • Comprehension syntax

    Peter Buneman;Leonid Libkin;Dan Suciu;Val Tannen

  • K2/Kleisli and GUS: experiments in integrated access to genomic data sources

    S. B. Davidson;J. Crabtree;B. P. Brunk;J. Schug

  • Inheritance and explicit coercion

    V. Breazu-Tannen;T. Coquand;C.A. Gunter;A. Scedrov

  • Querying data provenance

    Grigoris Karvounarakis;Zachary G. Ives;Val Tannen

  • Reformulation of XML Queries and Constraints

    Alin Deutsch;Val Tannen

  • Naturally Embedded Query Languages

    Val Tannen;Peter Buneman;Limsoon Wong

  • Update exchange with mappings and provenance

    Todd J. Green;Grigoris Karvounarakis;Zachary G. Ives;Val Tannen

  • Database programming in Machiavelli—a polymorphic language with static type inference

    Atsushi Ohori;Peter Buneman;Val Breazu-Tannen

  • Provenance for aggregate queries

    Yael Amsterdamer;Daniel Deutch;Val Tannen

  • Putting lipstick on pig: enabling database-style workflow provenance

    Yael Amsterdamer;Susan B. Davidson;Daniel Deutch;Tova Milo

  • MARS: a system for publishing XML from mixed and redundant storage

    Alin Deutsch;Val Tannen

  • Containment and Integrity Constraints for XPath Fragments

    Alin Deutsch;Val Tannen

  • Annotated XML: queries and provenance

    J. Nathan Foster;Todd J. Green;Val Tannen

  • The ORCHESTRA Collaborative Data Sharing System

    Zachary G. Ives;Todd J. Green;Grigoris Karvounarakis;Nicholas E. Taylor

  • Query reformulation with constraints

    Alin Deutsch;Lucian Popa;Val Tannen

  • Database Theory — ICDT '92

    Val Tannen;Peter Buneman;Limsoon Wong

  • Reconcilable differences

    Todd J. Green;Zachary G. Ives;Val Tannen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alin Deutsch
Alin Deutsch University of California, San Diego
Susan B. Davidson
Susan B. Davidson University of Pennsylvania
Zachary G. Ives
Zachary G. Ives University of Pennsylvania
Peter Buneman
Peter Buneman University of Edinburgh
Vassilis Christophides
Vassilis Christophides École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications
Lucian Popa
Lucian Popa IBM (United States)
Tova Milo
Tova Milo Tel Aviv University
Sanjeev Khanna
Sanjeev Khanna University of Pennsylvania
Limsoon Wong
Limsoon Wong National University of Singapore
Erich Grädel
Erich Grädel RWTH Aachen University

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