Laboratory for Database Systems Research

University of Alberta

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TIGUKAT/Multimedia Research Group

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STANDING (left to right): Ling Liu (Dr), Duane Szafron (Dr), Youping Niu (PhD), Ghada El-Medani (MSc), John Li (PhD), M. Tamer Özsu (Dr), Sherine El-Medani (MSc), Yuri Leontiev (PhD), LingLing Yan (PhD), Paul Iglinski (Staff)

SEATED (left to right): Chiradeep Vittal (MSc), Jose Icaza (Dr), Kaladhar Voruganti (PhD), Anne Nield (Staff), Randal Kornelsen (Staff), Iqbal Goralwalla (PhD), Manuela Schoene (MSc)

Research Activities

The group associated with the Laboratory for Database Systems Research are involved in a number of research activities including the development of distributed object-oriented database systems, deductive databases, distributed database management, the application of neural networks to database problems, and the development of databases to support software engineering activities. The ongoing projects are the following:

• TIGUKAT Distributed Objectbase Management System
• Multimedia data management
• DISIMA Distributed Image Database Management
• Deductive database systems
• Diorama/DIOM Interoperable Information System
• Adaptive logic networks

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Publications

Technical Reports

Refereed Publications

Database System Seminars

Future of DBMSs

• Database Systems: A Textbook Case of Research Paying Off, James N. Gray.
• Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities Into the 21st Century, A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker, and J. Ullman (editors).

Member Activities

• 12th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering
• RIDE-NDS'96
• EDBT'96
• 1996 SIGMOD/PODS Conference
• Third Int. Conf. on Multimedia Information Systems
• Int. Conf. on Interoperable and Cooperative Information Systems
• Int. Workshop on Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures

Laboratory Equipment

• 1 IBM RS6000/360 (64MB memory, 3GB disk, CDROM, 17" color monitor)
• 1 IBM RS6000/360 (64MB memory, 1GB disk, A/V capture card, 17" color monitor)
• 1 Sun 4/50-IPX (64MB memory, 3.5GB disk)
• 2 Sun 4/25-ELC (each with 16MB memory, 440MB disk)
• 1 Sun SS20/52 Turbo GX (2 processors each with 32MB memory, 3.1GB disk, CDROM, 17" color monitor)
• 3 Sun SS5/70 (each with 32MB memory, 535MB disk, 17" color monitor)
• 1 PowerMac 7100/AV

FTP Access

• The official ftp site is ftp.cs.ualberta.ca.

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