DATABASE RESEARCH GROUP SEMINAR

Maintaining Temporal Coherency in Virtual Data Warehouses

by Prof. Krithi Ramamritham
University of Massachussetts
Date: Monday, March 1, 1999
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Place: Rm. 101 - COC

ABSTRACT:

In Electronic Commerce applications such as stock trading, there is a need to make decisions based on information collected from various sources. Many of these sources are accessible from the World Wide Web. Because the information such as stock prices keep changing, it is important to maintain temporal coherency of the data presented to a client so as to avoid making decisions based on stale information. This translates to solving the problem of timely updates to a client's cache (which could be viewed as a virtual data warehouse). In this talk, we will present approaches for maintaining the temporal coherency of data in a virtual warehouse using stock trading data as the motivating example.

Krithi Ramamritham:

Prof. Ramamritham received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the real-time systems, transaction processing in database systems, and real-time databases systems. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has served as Program Chair and General Chair for the Real-Time Systems Symposium in 1994 and 1995 respectively. He has co-authored two IEEE tutorial texts on real-time systems, a text on advances in database transaction processing, and a text on scheduling in real-time systems.
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