Introduction
E. F. Codd: A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. Commun. ACM 13(6): 377-387 (1970)
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Advanced Concurrency Control
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapters 16, 17
Jim Gray, Raymond A. Lorie, Gianfranco R. Putzolu, Irving L. Traiger: Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Data Base. IFIP Working Conference on Modeling in Data Base Management Systems 1976.
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H. T. Kung, John T. Robinson: On Optimistic Methods for Concurrency Control. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 6(2): 213-226 (1981).
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Query Evaluation and Optimization
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapters 12-15
Patricia G. Selinger, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A. Lorie, Thomas G. Price: Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System. SIGMOD Conference 1979.
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Surajit Chaudhuri: An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems. PODS 1998.
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Buffer Management
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapter 9
Hong-Tai Chou, David J. DeWitt: An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems. VLDB 1985.
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Advanced Indexing Techniques
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapters 10, 11, 28
Antonin Guttman: R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching. SIGMOD Conference 1984.
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J. Nievergelt et al.: The Grid File: An Adaptable, Symmetric Multikey File Structure. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 9(1):38-71 (1984)
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Patrick E. O'Neil, Dallan Quass: Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes. SIGMOD Conference 1997.
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Data Mining and Decision Support
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapters 25, 26
Rakesh Agrawal, Ramakrishnan Srikant: Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases. VLDB 1994.
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Jim Gray et al.: Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-by, Cross-Tab, and Sub Totals. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 1(1): 29-53 (1997).
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Data Privacy and Security
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapter 21
Rakesh Agrawal et al.: Hippocratic Databases. VLDB 2002.
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Rakesh Agrawal et al.: Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database. VLDB 2004.
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Ashwin Machanavajjhala et al.: l-Diversity: Privacy beyond k-Anonymity. ICDE 2006.
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Kristen LeFevre et al.: Mondrian Multidimensional k-Anonymity. ICDE 2006.
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Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
Background: Ramakrishnan & Gehrke Chapter 22
David J. DeWitt, Jim Gray: Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Systems. Comm. ACM 35(6): 85-98 (1992).
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Michael Stonebraker et al.: Mariposa: A Wide-Area Distributed Database System. VLDB Journal 5(1): 48-63 (1996)
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Advanced Data Models
Michael Stonebraker: Inclusion of New Types in Relational Data Base Systems. ICDE 1986.
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Richard Snodgrass and Ilsoo Ahn: A taxonomy of time in databases. SIGMOD 1985.
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Michael Stonebraker and Joe Hellerstein: What Goes Around Comes Around.
Data on the Web
Eric Brewer: Combining Systems and Databases: A Search Engine Retrospective. [
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Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. 1998.
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Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. OSDI 2004.
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Tips for Research, Writing Technical Papers
Jennifer Widom: Tips for Writing Technical Papers. [
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Patrick Valduriez: Some Hints to Improve the Writing of Technical Papers. Correspondence in Engineering of Information Systems 2(3) (1994)
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Peter Denning: What is Experimental Computer Science? Communications of the ACM 23(10):543-544 (1980)
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