RTDB'97: Technical Program

Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases
September 18-19, 1997
Burlington, Vermont, USA

Technical Program

Wednesday September 17

6:00 - 7:00 pm: Informal reception

Thursday September 18

8:00 - 9:00 : Apropos
- Registration and breakfast
- Welcome remarks
9:00 - 10:00am : Applications I
- "Real-time Mutable Broadcast Disks". Sanjoy Baruah, University of Vermont, and Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA.
- "Real-Time Data and Coordination Control for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems". M. Tayara, N. Soparkar, J. Yook, and D. Tilbury, University of Michigan.
10:00-10:30am : Break
10:30-11:30am : Applications II
- "File Layout Design of VBR Video on Zoned-Disks". Yu-Chung Wang, Shiao-Li Tsao, Meng Chang Chen, Jan-Ming Ho and Ming-Tat Ko, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
- "A Framework For Using Redundant Data to Optimize Read-Intensive Database Applications". Timothy Griffin, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Daniel Lieuwen, and Gang Zhou Lucent Technologies, USA.
- "Object-Oriented Data Management and Distribution for Real-Time Command and Control Systems". Roman Ginis, Eric Hughes, Steven Wohlever, Bhavani Thurasingham, Peter Krupp, John Maurer, MITRE Corporation, USA.
11:30 - Noon Discussion: New Applications For RTDBs
Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:10 pm: Scheduling
- "Integrating Fixed Priority and Static Scheduling for External Consistency". Wolfgang Albrecht and Dieter Zobel, Institut fuer Informatik of the Universitae Koblenz, Germany.
- "Scheduling Nested Transactions in Real-time Database System". Erdogan Dogdu and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu Case Western Reserve University, USA.
- "Data State Dependent Approach for Criticality Assignment in Real-time Active Databases". Kam-yiu Lam, Gary C.K. Law and Victor C.S. Lee City University of Hong Kong, China.
- "Towards Unifying Database Scheduling and Concurrency Control: A Frontier Approach" Gregory Jones, Naval UnderSea Warfare Center, Lisa Cingiser DiPippo and Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island, USA.
3:10 - 3:45 pm Break
3:45 - 5:30 pm Panel: Future Directions for RTDB on Internet
- Chair: Jen-Yao Chung, IBM.
- Participants from IBM, Lucent, Computer Associate, HP, Open Sesame, and the University of Michigan.
6:30 Banquet: A Lake Champlain Shoreline Dinner Cruise aboard the Spirit of Ethan Allen-II

Friday September 19, 1997

8-8:30: Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 Concurrency Management I
- "A Performance Study of the Semantic-Based Concurrency Control Protocol in Air Traffic Control systems". Ching-Shan Peng, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Tony Ng, University of California, Irvine, USA.
- "Enhancement of Alternative Version Concurrency Control Using Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order for a Mixed Load of Transactions". Inho Yoon LG Electronics, and Seog Park, Sogang University, Korea.
- "Concurrency Control for Approximate Query Processing of Real-Time Database Systems" Susan V. Vrbsky, Sasa Tomic, University of Alabama and Nenad Jukic, Grand Valley State University, USA.
- "Implementing Hard Real Time Transactions on Multiprocessors". James H. Anderson, Rohit Jain, Srikanth Ramamurthy, University of North Carolina, USA.
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:10 Concurrency Management II
- "A Study of Priority Cognizance in Conflict Resolution for Firm Real-Time Database Systems". Anindya Datta, Igor R. Viguier, University of Arizona, Sang H. Son, University of Virginia-Charlottesville and Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
- "Concurrency Admission Control for Real-Time Databases". S. Nagy The Open Group and Azer Bestravos Boston University, USA.
- "Transaction Processing in the RODAIN Real-Time Database System" Jukka Kiviniemi, Tiina Niklander, Pasi Porkka, and Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
12:10 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:50 Languages
- "Toward Specification and Analysis of Real-Time Active Databases". Ming Xiong and Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, USA.
- "Optimizing Performance-Polymorphic Declarative Database Queries". Thomas Padron-McCarthy and Tore Risch, Linkoping University, Sweden.
- Invited presentation: "Real-Time SQL" Janet Prichard, East Carolina University, and Paul Fortier, University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth, USA.
2:50 - 3:30: Discussion: Real-Time Database Community Involvement in the Real-Time SQL Standard.
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00-5:00: Logging and Architectures
- "A Logging Technique Based on Transaction Types in Real-Time Databases". Le Gruenwald and Shih Jen Cheng, University of Oklahoma, USA.
- "The Case For Client/Server Real-Time Databases" Vinay Kanitkar and Alex Delis, Polytechnic University New York, USA.
- "BeeHive: Global Multimedia Database Support for Dependable, Real-Time Applications". John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son, and Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia, USA.
5:00 pm: Closing Remarks and Discussion

For more information check RTDB'97 Home Page at
http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtdb97


Maintainer: Azer Bestavros (best@cs.bu.edu)
Created on: July 29, 1997
Updated on: July 29, 1997