Abraham Silberschatz

Professorship in Computer Sciences
M.S. (1973), Ph.D. (1976), S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook

Honors, Awards, and Professional Service

Areas of Interest

Database systems, operating systems, distributed systems, and knowledge-based systems

Summary of Research

My main area of specialization is concurrent processing. My most recent research has been concentrated in the areas of multidatabase transaction management, parallel processing of knowledge-based systems, real-time database systems, multiresolution database systems, continuous-media storage servers, and high-performance transaction systems.

Selected Recent Publications

S. Ganguly, A. Silberschatz, and S. Tsur, "Mapping datalog program execution to networks of processors," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, no. 7, vol. 3, pp. 351-361, June 1995.

H. Jagadish, D. Lieuwen, R. Rastogi, A. Silberschatz, and S. Sudarshan, "Dali: a high performance main memory storage manager," International Conference on Very Large Databases, September 1994.

B. Ozden, A. Biliris, R. Rastogi, A. Silberschatz, "A low-cost storage server for movie on demand databases," International Conference on Very Large Databases, September 1994.

B. Ozden, R. Rastogi, and A. Silberschatz, "A framework for the storage and retrieval of continuous media data," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, May 1995.

R. Read, D. Fussell, and A. Silberschatz, "A multi-resolution relational data model," International Conference on Very Large Databases, August 1992.

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