Editorial

• Editor in chief of the ACM SIGMOD Record
• Associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies
• Member of the editorial board of PVLDB (2008-2011)

Chairing and participating to community events

• ICDE 2012 chair of the Semistructured Data, XML and RDF track
• EDBT/ICDT 2012 tutorial chair
• ICDE 2011 chair of the Experiments, Applications and Systems track
• EDBT 2010 program chair
• ICDE 2010 demonstration co-chair
• SIGMOD 2008 experiment repeatability chair, SIGMOD 2009 and 2010 repeatability and workability co-chair
• EDBT 2008 demonstration chair
• Chair of the PLAN-X 2008 workshop, in cooperation with SIGPLAN
• Co-chair of the Database track at the ACM CIKM 2008 conference
• Vice-chair of the Web Engineering track at the WWW 2009 conference
• Workshop co-chair:
  • Co-chair of the International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2007.
  • Co-chair and founder of the First International Workshop on Performance and Evaluation of Data Management Systems (EXPDB), in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2006.
  • Co-chair and founder of the First International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P), in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004.

Program Committee member

• ACM SIGMOD Conference 2012
• PVLDB 2012 Experiments and Analysis Track
• VLDB PhD workshop 2012
• Cloud Data Management workshop 2012 (in collaboration with IEEE ICDE)
• Data Analytics in the Cloud workshop 2012 (in collaboration with EDBT/ICDT)
• Non-conventional Data Access (NoCoDA) workshop 2012 (in collaboration with the ER conference)

• CIKM 2011
• ICDE 2011 workshop on managing data throughout its lifecycle (DaLi)
• BDA 2011
• APWeb 2011


• ICDE 2010 PhD workshop
• BDA 2010

• SIGMOD Conference 2009
• ICWE Conference 2009
• BDA 2009

• ICDE Conference 2008
• VLDB Conference 2008 (core database track)
• BDA 2008

• VLDB Conference 2007
• CIKM 2007
• BDA 2007
• EXPDB 2007
• WIDM 2007

• EDBT Conference 2006
• EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2006
• WWW Conference 2006
• ICDE Conference 2006
• COMAD conference 2006
• ICSOC conference 2006
• WebDB workshop 2006
• XIME-P workshop 2006

• VLDB 2005
• International Data Engineering Conference (ICDE) 2005.
• CIKM 2005
• WIDM 2005
• COMAD 2005
• WWW Conference 2005
• WebDB workshop 2005 (Int.'l Workshop on Databases and the Web)
• XIME-P workshop 2005 (Int.'l Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives)
• XSym 2005 (Int.'l XML Database Symposium)
• BDA 2005
• SBBD 2005 (Brazilian Database Symposium)
• ICSOC 2005 (Int.'l Conference on Service-Oriented Computing)


• AIMSA 2004
• ICDE/EDBT 2004 PhD workshop.
• VLDB 2004
• International Data Engineering Conference (ICDE) 2004.
• ACM SIGMOD 2004
• "Journees de Bases de Donnees Avancees" (BDA) 2004, the French database conference
• "Simposio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados" (SBBD) 2004, the Brasilian database conference
• ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM) 2004



• XML Symposium 2003, in cooperation with VLDB 2003.
• The Semantic Web Conference 2003.
• "Web Technologies and Applications", track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2003.
• Efficience and Effectiveness of XML Tools and Techniques (EEXTT), in cooperation with VLDB 2002.
• Efficient Web-based Information Systems (EWIS), in cooperation with the OOIS 2002 conference, Montpellier, France.


• International Workshop on Information Integration over the Web (WIIW) 2001.
• Workshop on Data Integration over the Web (DiWeb), in cooperation with the CAiSE 2001 conference.

VLDB 2007 publicity chair

External journal reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies (TOIT)
• VLDB Journal (VLDBJ)
• Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal
• International Web Engineering Journal
• Elsevier Journal on Information Systems