Databases and Distributed Systems

The mission of the Databases and Distributed Systems Group headed by Prof. Alejandro Buchmann Ph.D. is to develop new solutions for the integrated management of data, information and knowledge in highly distributed environments. Please visit our research pages for further information.

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Exam Dates Summer Semester 2016

19.07.2016

The oral exams for Prof. Buchmann's lectures will take place in D106 and are scheduled as follows:
Date Time Lecture Matrikelnumber
01.09.2016 09:00 Business Intelligence 2612467
01.09.2016 09:45 Business Intelligence 2366153
01.09.2016 10:30 Business Intelligence 2988586
01.09.2016 11:15 Business Intelligence 2801647
01.09.2016 13:00 Business Intelligence 1832947
01.09.2016 13:45 Business Intelligence 2725516
01.09.2016 14:30 Business Intelligence 2696221
       
06.09.2016 09:00 Database Systems II 2366153
06.09.2016 09:45 Database Systems II 2967015
06.09.2016 10:30 Event Processing 1674273
06.09.2016 11:15 Event Processing 2734510
06.09.2016 13:00 Event Processing 2796273
06.09.2016 13:45 Event Processing 2019578
       
07.09.2016 09:00 Performance and Scaling in E-Commerce Systems 2366153
 
Please be on time for your exam. Not showing up on time is automatically counted as a failed attempt.
 
If you decide to deregister from an exam please let us know. Be aware that you also have to deregister in TUCaN.
 
Should you have another exam at the same time, please let us know. Please attach a proof for which other exam you are registered.

Last Lectures

Attention! The following courses are no longer offered:
  • Database Systems II
  • Middleware
  • Performance and Scaling in E-Commerce Systems
The exam for each will be offered twice (summer term 2015 and winter term 2015/2016), but the course will not be taught. After that there is no possibility to pass these courses.
The following courses are offered for the last time in summer term 2015:
  • Introduction to Data and Knowledge Engineering taught by Prof. Buchmann and Prof. Fürnkranz
  • Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
  • Event Processing
The courses will not be taught again after summer term 2015. The exam for each will be offered three times (summer term 2015, winter term 2015/2016 and summer term 2016). After that there is no possibility to pass these courses.
Achtung! Folgende Veranstaltungen werden nicht mehr angeboten:
  • Database Systems II
  • Middleware
  • Performance and Scaling in E-Commerce Systems
Die Prüfungen werden jeweils noch zwei mal angeboten (im Sommersemester 2015 und Wintersemester 2015/2016), aber die Vorlesung wird nicht mehr gehalten. Anschließend gibt es keine Möglichkeit mehr diese Veranstaltungen zu prüfen.
Die folgenden Veranstaltungen werden im Sommersemester 2015 zum letzten mal angeboten:
  • Introduction to Data and Knowledge Engineering gehalten von Prof. Buchmann and Prof. Fürnkranz
  • Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
  • Event Processing
Die Veranstaltungen werden nach dem Sommersemester 2015 nicht mehr gehalten. Die Prüfung wird jeweils noch drei mal angeboten (SoSe 2015, WiSe 2015/2016 und SoSe 2016). Anschließend gibt es keine Möglichkeit mehr diese Veranstaltungen zu prüfen.

Paper Accepted at EDBT 2015

The paper NoFTL for Real: Databases on Real Native Flash Storage by Sergey Hardock, Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Brussels, Belgium (EDBT 2015).

Paper Accepted at ICDE 2015

The tutorial DBMS on Modern Storage Hardware by Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein, Sergey Hardock has been accepted for publication at the 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2015, Seoul, Korea.

Report exam conflicts!

20.11.2014

If our exam dates conflict with any of your other exams, we ask you to report this by email until Tuesday, 25th November 2014. Please make sure to include the conflicting lecture's full name (the other lecture, not our lecture of course), its date and time, and if possible the lecturer's name.

Paper published in Information Systems journal

14.05.2014

The paper "Modeling and execution of event stream processing in business processes" by Stefan Appel, Pascal Kleber, Sebastian Frischbier, Tobias Freudenreich, and Alejandro Buchmann has accepted for publication in the Elsevier journal Information Systems and is now availale online.

Poster Presented at EuroSys 2014

The poster "McCAT: Multi-cloud Cost-aware Transport" by Sebastian Frischbier (TU Darmstadt), Alessandro Margara (USI), Tobias Freundenreich (TU Darmstadt), Patrick Eugster (Purdue University), David Eyers (University of Otago), and Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London) has been presented at EuroSys 2014 (http://eurosys2014.vu.nl/)

Chapter Accepted in Book: Computational Intelligence for Decision Support in Cyber-Physical Systems

A book chapter titled "Configurable, Energy-Efficient, Application- and Channel-aware Middleware Approaches for Cyber-Physical Systems" authored by Khalid Nawaz, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication in the book titled "Computational Intelligence for Decision Support in Cyber-Physical Systems" under the serice "Studies in Computational Intelligence" by Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-981-4585-35-4.

Paper Accepted at EDBT 2014

The paper "SIAS-V in Action: Snapshot Isolation Append Storage - Vectors on Flash" by Robert Gottstein, Thorsten Peter, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the "17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology" (EDBT 2014 - Demonstrations Track), held in Athens, Greece on March 24-28, 2014.

Paper Accepted at IJAS

The Paper "Multi-Version Databases on Flash: Append Storage and Access Paths" by Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication in the "International Journal On Advances in Software, 2013 vol. 6, no 3&;4".

2nd Best Paper Award for myHealthAssistant

myHealthAssistantThe Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2013) is granted to Christian Seeger, Jens Sauer, Kristof Van Laerhoven, and Alejandro Buchmann for the paper titled A Publish/Subscribe Middleware for Body and Ambient Sensor Networks that Mediates between Sensors and Applications.
 

Please visit the myHealthAssistant webpage for more information.

DFG FlashyDB Extended

The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has extended the FlashyDB research project. DFG FlashyDB is aiming to investigate the influence of flash memory on the database architecture, performance and algorithms.

Paper Accepted at IDEAS 2013

The paper "Read Optimisations for Append Storage on Flash" by Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the "17th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium" (IDEAS 2013) held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2013.

Paper Accepted at ADMS 2013

The paper "FBARC: I/O Asymmetry-Aware Buffer Replacement Strategy" by Paul Dubs, Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the "Fourth International Workshop on Accelerating Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures" (ADMS 2013), in conjunction with VLDB 2013, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy in August 2013.

Best Paper Award at NSS 2013

19.06.2013

The paper "Privacy Preserving Context Aware Publish Subscribe Systems" (PDF) by Mohamed Nabeel, Stefan Appel, Elisa Bertino, and Alejandro Buchmann received a Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS) held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2013.

Paper Accepted at VLDB 2013

The paper "NoFTL: Database Systems on FTL-less Flash Storage" by Sergey Hardock, Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein, and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) (Demonstrations Track) held in Trento (Riva del Garda), Italy, in August 2013.

Paper accepted at BPM 2013

15.05.2013

The paper "Event Stream Processing Units in Business Processes" by Stefan Appel, Sebastian Frischbier, Tobias Freudenreich, and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) held in Beijing, China, in August 2013.

Paper accepted at ICHI 2013

The paper "A Publish/Subscribe Middleware for Body and Ambient Sensor Networks that Mediates between Sensors and Applications" by Christian Seeger, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Jens Sauer, Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics held in Philadelphia.

Best Paper Award at DBKDA

The paper "Aspects of Append-Based Database Storage Management on Flash Memories" by Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann received the Best Paper Award at "The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications" held in Seville, Spain in January 2013

Paper accepted at AOSD 2013

19.03.2013

The paper "Aggregation for Implicit Invocation" by Sebastian Frischbier (DVS), Alessandro Margara (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Tobias Freudenreich (DVS), Patrick Eugster (Purdue University), David Eyers (University of Otago), and Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London) has been accepted  for publication at the 12th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'13). The paper will be presented on March 28th, 2013. Further information about the ongoing ASIA project can be found here.

Paper accepted at BNCOD 2013

The paper "Append Storage in Multi-Version Databases on Flash" by Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the 29th British National Conference on Databases.

New Software-Cluster project SINNODIUM

04.03.2013

DVS participates in the new Software-Cluster research project “Software Innovations for the Digital Company” (SINNODIUM). "On 22 February 2013, Software AG in Saarbrücken (Germany) hosted the kick-off meeting for the project “Software Innovations for the Digital Company.” The aim of the cooperation of 32 partners from industry and research is to create an infrastructure for the launch of business software services in the cloud that can be combined in new ways. The project is the last of four projects starting within the Software-Cluster that receive funding via the Leading-Edge Cluster Competition of the German Federal Government" (press release).

Paper accepted at ECOOP 2013

04.03.2013

The paper "Implementing Federated Object Systems" by Tobias Freudenreich, Patrick Eugster, Sebastian Frischbier, Stefan Appel, and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the 27th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. The paper presents results from joint research between Purdue University and DVS.

Paper accepted at NSS 2013

04.03.2013

The paper "Privacy Preserving Context Aware Publish Subscribe Systems" by Mohamed Nabeel, Stefan Appel, Elisa Bertino, and Alejandro Buchmann has been accepted for publication at the 7th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS). The paper presents results from a joint research project between Purdue University and DVS.

Contact

Prof. Alejandro Buchmann, PhD

Technische Universität Darmstadt
Department of Computer Science
Databases and Distributed Systems
Hochschulstraße 10
64289 Darmstadt
Germany

+49 (0)6151 16-25600
+49 (0)6151 16-25602

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