Dr. Francesco Cafagna

Francesco Cafagna is a former research assistant at the University of Zurich in the Database Technology Research Group. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Information Technology for Telecommunications at University of Milan in December 2008. In July 2010 he earned his Master Degree in Information Technology for Telecommunications at the same University. He obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Michael Böhlen working on Data Warehouses and Temporal Databases.

• Spring 2015: Database Systems
• Fall 2014: Distributed Database Systems
• Spring 2014: Database Systems
• Fall 2013: Distributed Database Systems
• Spring 2013: Database Systems
• Spring 2012: Database Systems
• Spring 2011: Database Systems

• F. Cafagna, M. Böhlen
  Disjoint Interval Partitioning (PDF, 613 KB)
  VLDB Journal '17 
• F. Cafagna, M. Böhlen
  Category- and Selection-Enabled Nearest Neighbour Joins  (PDF, 630 KB)
  Information Systems Journal '17 
• F. Cafagna, M. Böhlen, A. Bracher
  Nearest Neighbour Join with Groups and Predicates
  DOLAP '15 Melbourne, Australia
• A. Taliun, M. Böhlen, A. Bracher,F. Cafagna
  A GIS-based data analysis platform for analyzing the time-varying quality of animal feed and its impact on the environment
  iEMSs '12 Leipzig, Germany
• F. Cafagna, M. B ̈ohlen, A. Bracher
  Die Schweizerische Futtermitteldatenbank
  Agrarforschung Schweiz, Vol. 3 (2), 2012 Journal

Leveraging Sort-Merge for Processing Temporal Data.

• Feedbase.ch - The Swiss Feed Database (in collaboration with Agroscope )
• Extension of PostgreSQL 9.3 for supporting Nearest Neighbour Joins