Advanced Database Systems

Carlo Zaniolo holds the Friedman Chair in Knowledge Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an active resarcher in the areas of database, knowledge bases, and intelligent databases. Stefano Ceri is Professor of Database Systems at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, and object orientation. Christos Faloutsos is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include physical database design, searching methods for text, geographic information systems, and indexing methods for medical and multimedia databases. Richard T. Snodgrass is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona, and co-director of the TimeCenter, an international center for the support of temporal database applications on traditional and emerging DBMS technologies. His resarch interests include temporal databases, query language design, query optimization and evaluation, storage structures, database design, and software development databases. V.S. Subrahmanian is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where his work focuses on incomplete and uncertain information in databases and knowledge bases, integrated heterogeneous data and software, and multimedia systems. V.S. Subrahmanian was awarded his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University in 1989. He is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, where he also heads the Multimedia Systems Laboratory. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and the Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the Maryland Academy of Sciences. He has worked extensively in knowledge bases, synthesizing techniques in artificial intelligence, and database engineering. He is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and AI Communications Journal, and co-author of Advanced Database Systems (1997 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.). Roberto Zicari is Professor of Computer Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, and an internationally recognized expert in the field of object database systems.