EECS 584: Advanced Database Systems, Fall 2006

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Here is the reading list for EECS 584.

 

Most of these publications are available to UM students via http://www.lib.umich.edu/. In particular, EECS-related journals are available via this UofM-elink.


1. Codd, "A relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks," CACM 13(6), 1970, pp 377-387. Assigned to Erin Rhode.
2. Astrahan et al, "System R: Relational Approach to DB Mgmt," ACM Trans. Database Systems 1(2), 1976, pp. 97-137.
3. The Chou/DeWitt buffering paper ("An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for RDBMS," VLDB Conf., 1985, pp 127-141).
4. BLANK
5. Hilbert curves: my SIGMOD 90 paper.
6. BLANK
7. The survey of multi-dimensional indexing.
8. The GiST paper (Hellerstein, Naughton, Pfeffer, "Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems," VLDB Conf., 1995, pp. 562-573).
9. Secs. 1, 2, 3.1, 4, and 7 of the join evaluation survey.
10. The query processing survey. Assigned to Zhuo Ran Chen
11. The Selinger paper ("Access Path Selection in a RDBMS," SIGMOD Conf., 1979, pp. 22-34). Assigned to Jaswinder Singh.
12. The query optimization survey. No longer required reading.
13. BLANK
14. The TP Benchmark paper (Anon et al, "A Measure of Transaction Processing Power," Datamation 31(7), 1985, pp. 112-118). Assigned to Melanie Agnew.
15. DeWitt's retrospective on the Wisconsin benchmark.
16. BLANK
17. XMark is the most popular XML benchmark today. Assigned to Haixiong Wang.
18. Gray's paper on degrees of consistency . Assigned to Joshua Bartlett.
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20. The Gray Replication paper ("The dangers of replication and a solution," SIGMOD Conf., 1996, pp. 173-182). Assigned to Antino Kim.
21. The ObjectStore paper (Lamb et al, "The ObjectStore Database System," CACM 34(10), 1991, pp. 51-63).
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23. The datacube paper Gray et al, "Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By, Cross-Tab, and Sub-Totals," IEEE Conf. Data Engg, 1996. Assigned to Nate Derbinsky.
24. The variant index paper (O'Neil and Quass, "Improved Query Performance with Variant Indices," SIGMOD Conf., 1997, pp. 38-49). A more readable version. Assigned to James Sweeney.
25. The A priori paper (Agrawal and Srikant, "Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules," VLDB Conf. 1994, pp. 487-499).
26. XQuery Extension for text, (WWW Conf. 2004, pp. 583-594). Assigned to Seth Shaw.
27. BLANK.
28. Schema-Free XQuery, allowing complex queries without full schema knowledge, (VLDB Journal, to appear, 2006). Assigned to Willis Lang.
29. Eddies, adaptive optimization for stream processing, (SIGMOD Conf. 2000).
30. Future Architectures for DB systems.