Report: 4th Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2009)

Report: 5th Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2010)

The SMDB Workshop series sponsored by the IEEE TCDE Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems brings together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas related to autonomic data management systems. Previous workshops of the SMDB series focused on core topics in self-managing databases like physical design tuning, problem diagnosis and recovery, and database integration and protection. I...

Report: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2008)

Report on the Second International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2007)

Information management systems are growing rapidly in scale and complexity, while skilled database administrators are becoming rarer and more expensive. Increasingly, the total cost of ownership of information management systems is dominated by the cost of people, rather than hardware or software costs. This economic dynamic dictates that information systems of the future be more automated and ...

Report from the 4th Workshop on Extremely Large Databases

Academic and industrial users are increasingly facing the challenge of petabytes of data, but managing and analyzing such large data sets still remains a daunting task. The 4 Extremely Large Databases workshop was organized to examine the needs of communities under-represented at the past workshops facing these issues. Approaches to big data statistical analytics as well as emerging opportuniti...

Report from the 3rd Workshop on Extremely Large Databases

Academic and industrial users are increasingly facing the challenge of petabytes of data, but managing and analyzing such large data sets still remains a daunting task. Both the database and the map/reduce communities worldwide are working on addressing these issues. The 3 Extremely Large Databases workshop was organized to examine the needs of scientific communities beginning to face these iss...