At the 2011 competition of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (http://oaei.ontologymatching.org), our YAM++ ontology matching tool achieved excellent results: first position on the Conference track and second position on the Benchmark track.

Esther Pacitti gave a tutorial on P2P Techniques for Decentralized Applications at the conference Bases de Données Avancées (BDA 2011): http://bda2011.prism.uvsq.fr/programme.html.

Patrick Valduriez is a keynote speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011. He will address the question: Principles of Distributed Data Management in 2020?.

Tamer Özsu and Patrick Valduriez will be running a panel on Distributed Data Management in 2020 at the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Hannover, Germany, April 11-16, 2011.

The Zenith INRIA team (Montpellier) was created in january 2011.