Workshop 5: Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
Programme Committee:
Global Chair. Jon Kerridge
(Napier University, UK),
j.kerridge@dcs.napier.ac.uk
Local Chair. Lionel Brunie
(ENS Lyon, France),
Lionel.Brunie@ens-lyon.fr
Vice Chair. Harald Kosch
(University of Klagenfurt, Austria),
harald@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at
Description:
Parallel and distributed database systems are critical for many
application domains such as high-performance transaction systems, data
warehousing and interoperable information systems. A number of
solutions are commercially available, but many open problems remain.
Future database systems must support flexible and adaptive approaches
for data allocation, load balancing and parallel query processing,
both at the DML and at the transaction program level. Distributed
databases have to meet new challenges by the Internet and by the
integration into workflow management systems. New application areas
such as decision support, data mining, text handling imply new
requirements with respect to functionality and performance.
Topics of interest include:
- describing and discovering parallelism
- transaction management
- parallel query optimization
- management of deep storage hierarchies
- dynamic load balancing
- tertiary storage management
- replication management
- interoperability
- recovery within parallel units of execution
- performance evaluation
- data allocation
- databases and the internet
- system management