Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with
database systems, through active databases, to being a topic that has grown
beyond the scope of a single field encompassing multiple aspects: distributed
systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The
present collection of works, shedding light on various facets of data management,
is dedicated to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
His scientific path looks back on more than 30 years of successful academic life
and high impact research. With this book we celebrate Prof. Buchmann’s vision
and achievements.
The works presented here cover many different topics: database systems,
event-based systems, distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, etc. All these
are areas in which Prof. Buchmann and his group were active and provided
relevant research contributions over the years.
The area of data management, streams and XML spans contributions from
Theo H¨arder et al. on XML processing and key concepts implemented in XTC;
from M. Tamer ¨Ozsu et al. on mining streaming data; from Thomas Kudraß on
active database systems; and from Frischbier and Petrov on data intensive cloud
applications.
The field of event processing is covered through contributions from many
leading researchers such as K. Mani Chandy on extending the boundaries of
sense-and-respond applications to the Web and the Cloud; from Jean Bacon,
Ken Moody et al. on spatio-temporal composite event languages; from Opher
Etzion et al. on spatial perspectives in event processing; and from Gero M¨uhl et
al. offering insights on underlying design principles implemented in Rebeca.
The fields of quality of service and real-time systems are represented by
contributions from Krithi Ramamritham et al. on safety partition kernel for
integrated real-time systems; from Annika Hinze et al. on anonymous mobile service
collaboration; and from Dimka Karastoyanova on scientific experiments and
services.
The area of peer-to-peer concepts and systems contains contributions from
Gerhard Weikum offering an overview and in-depth insights on peer-to-peer
web search; from Max Lehn et al. on benchmarking peer-to-peer systems; and
from Christof Leng et al. on building an SQL query processor for peer-to-peer
networks.
