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Research Overview and Activities

parallel databases (Peter, Albert, Thomas)

analysis of commercial products (more),

concurrency and recovery,

parallel temporal databases (more),

recursive query processing (more)

distributed databases (Albert)

concurrency control and recovery mechanisms

temporal databases (Thomas, Ion)

parallel temporal query processing (more),

natural query language interfaces to temporal database (more)

data warehousing & temporal databases

object-oriented databases (Peter, Nils, Carlos)

storage-management (more)

prefetching (more)

performance analysis (more)

natural language interfaces (Ion)

natural query language interfaces to temporal database (more)

Current Members

• Peter Thanisch <pt@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Head of Group
• Nils Knafla <nk@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
• Thomas Zurek <tz@dcs.ed.ac.uk>

Past Members

• Ion Androutsopoulos <ion@mri.mq.edu.au>
• Albert Burger <ab@cee.hw.ac.uk>
• Carlos Herrera <cherrera@iie.org.mx>

Publications and Technical Reports

Recent publications and reports are near the top.

• Nils Knafla
  Analysing Object Relationships to Predict Page Access for Prefetching
  Eighth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems: Design, Implementation and Use, POS-8
  Tiburon, California, 30th August - 1st September 1998
  Abstract | Paper
• Nils Knafla
  Predicting Future Page Access by Analysing Object Relationships
  Technical Report ECS-CSG-35-97, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
  December 1997
  Abstract | Report
• P. Thanisch and M.G. Norman
  Scalability of platfroms for data warehouse applications.
  In: Japan Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, AI97-34, DE97-67(1997-12), pp. 25-32.
  Paper
• N. Knafla
  Speed Up Your Database Client with Adaptable Multithreaded Prefetching
  Sixth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC-6
  Abstract | Paper
• Th. Zurek
  Optimisation of Partitioned Temporal Joins
  Proceedings of the BNCOD'97 Conference, London, United Kingdom
  July 1997
  Abstract | Paper | Talk: landscape, portrait slides | HTML-Version
• N. Knafla
  A Prefetching Technique for Object-Oriented Databases
  Proceedings of the BNCOD'97 Conference, London, United Kingdom
  July 1997
  Abstract | Paper
• Th. Zurek
  Optimal Interval Partitioning for Temporal Databases
  Proceedings of the BIWIT'97 Workshop, Biarritz, France
  July 1997
  Abstract | Talk
• S. Ramsey, J. Nummenmaa, P. Thanisch, R. Pooley and S. Gilmore
  Interactive simulation of distributed transaction processing commit protocols.
  In: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the United Kingdom Simulation Society, Keswick, U.K., 23rd-25th April 1997 (P. Luker, ed.), pp 112-127.
  Paper
  
• Th. Zurek
  Parallel Temporal Joins
  Proceedings of the BTW'97 (German Database) Conference, Ulm, Germany
  March 1997
  Abstract | Paper | Talk | HTML-Version
• N. Knafla
  A Prefetching Technique for Object-Oriented Databases
  Technical Report ECS-CSG-28-97, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
  January 1997
  Abstract | Report
  
• M. G. Norman, Th. Zurek, P. Thanisch
  Much Ado about Shared-Nothing
  SIGMOD Record, Vol. 25, No. 3, 6 pages
  September 1996
  Abstract | Paper* | SIGMOD Record Online*

  * identical

• I. Androutsopoulos
  A Principled Framework for Constructing Natural Language Interfaces to Temporal Databases
  PhD Thesis, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
  June 1996
  Abstract
• Th. Zurek, E. M. Minty, P. Thanisch
  Recursive Query Processing on a Connection Machine
  in "Parallel Information Processing", ed. by J. Keane,
  UNICOM, Stanley Thornes Publishers, 1996
  Abstract
• Th. Zurek
  Parallel Temporal Nested-Loop Joins
  Technical Report ECS-CSG-20-96
  January 1996
  Abstract | Report
• M. G. Norman, P. Thanisch
  Parallel Database Technology: An Evaluation and Comparison of Scalable Systems
  Bloor Research Group, ISBN 1-874160-17-1, 1995
• Th. Zurek, P. Thanisch
  Strategies for Parallel Linear Recursive Query Processing
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop "Rules in Database Systems" (RIDS), Glyfada, Athens, Greece
  September 1995
  Abstract | Talk
• I. Androutsopoulos, G. Ritchie, P. Thanisch
  Experience Using TSQL2 in a Natural Language Interface
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Zürich, Switzerland
  September 1995
• Th. Zurek, P. Thanisch
  Optimization Strategies for Parallel Linear Recursive Query Processing
  CSG Technical Report ECS-CSG-16-95
  July 1995
  Abstract | Report
• A. Burger, P. Thanisch
  Branching Transaction: A Transaction Model for Parallel Databases
  Proceedings of the British National Conference (BNCOD'94)
  July 1994
  

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