Foto N. Afrati is a professor in the Electrical and Computing Engineering Department of the NTUA, Greece. She received a B.S. degree from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Ph.D. from Imperial College of the University of London. She is a Fellow of ACM. She has received the ACM Recognition for Service Award in 2005 and the best-paper award in ICDT 2009. She has been the program-committee chair for the Conference on Principles of Databases (PODS) 2005, and for the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) 1997, for which she was the organizing committee chair as well. She currently serves as associate editor of the IEEE TKDE journal. In 2012–2013, she spent her sabbatical leave visiting Google at Mountain View. She has published over 100 papers in the areas of databases, algorithms, and distributed computing. Her research interests are in the area of database theory, recent research interests are mainly in the area of big data, including query optimization for MapReduce and other distributed platforms.
Rada Y. Chirkova is an associate professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. She has received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc., both in Applied Mathematics, from Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D., both in Computer Science, from Stanford University. She is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and served in 2017 as General Co-Chair of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD). She is associate editor of the SIGMOD Record journal and of The Computer Journal (Oxford). She has co-authored 3 books (including this book), and has over 60 peer-reviewed publications on topics ranging from query containment and equivalence, query processing, view-based reformulation of data and queries, information security and leakage, to applications of policies to agent behaviors. She has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, as well as numerous IBM Faculty and University Partnership Program Awards. Her research interests span information and knowledge management, algorithms and theory of computation, and data sciences and analytics, with applications including data wrangling, cyber security, and healthcare information technology.
H. V. Jagadish is Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Distinguished Scientist at the Institute for Data Science, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prior to 1999, he was Head of the Database Research Department at AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ. Professor Jagadish is well known for his broad-ranging research on information management, and has approximately 200 major papers and 37 patents. He is a fellow of the ACM, "The First Society in Computing," (since 2003) and serves on the board of the Computing Research Association (since 2009). He has been an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1992-1995), Program Chair of the ACM SIGMOD annual conference (1996), Program Chair of the ISMB conference (2005), a trustee of the VLDB (Very Large DataBase) foundation (2004-2009), Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2008-2014), and Program Chair of the VLDB Conference (2014). Among his many awards, he won the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2013 and the David E Liddle Research Excellence Award (at the University of Michigan) in 2008.
