Yanlei Diao
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Monday April 19th, 2010
4:30 pm (refreshments at 4:15pm), 5317 Sennott Square

Roxana will be presenting recent results in the annotations field:

Floris Geerts, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Diego Milano. "MONDRIAN: Annotating and querying databases through colors and blocks". ICDE'06

Abstract:

Annotations play a central role in the curation of scientific databases. Despite their importance, data formats and schemas are not designed to manage the increasing variety of annotations. Moreover, DBMS’s often lack support for storing and querying annotations. Furthermore, annotations and data

For this week's DB Talk, Panickos will be presenting his work entitled "Power Aware Continuous Query Results Broadcasting and Operator Placement".

Lory will be giving her practice talk in preparation for her presentation at ICDE'10.

Shenoda presented some of his recent work on aggregate continuous queries, which he hopes will become a conference paper submission and part of his dissertation proposal.

Alex Connor presented a work in progress that explores the possible benefits of combining GPS and wireless technologies for route planning.

In this session we are going to discuss Dr. Mohamed's paper and presentation to ADC10.

Location: Eli Lilly Room (6106) - Sennot Square

Paper: Improving Transaction-Time DBMS Performance and Functionality,
By David Lomet and Feifei Li.

AFS folder: \\afs\cs.pitt.edu\projects\admt\library\conf\icde\Transactions.pdf