Pervasive Query Processing

Speaker:	Dr. Qiong LUO
		Assistant Professor
		Department of Computer Science & Engineering
		Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Title:		"Pervasive Query Processing"

Date:		Monday, 26 March 2007

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

Database systems have successfully served various applications on a wide
range of computers for the past 30 years, storing data mainly on disks,
answering queries mostly in SQL (Structured Query Language), and managing
large numbers of concurrent transactions.  Nevertheless, the rapid
advances in hardware architectures as well as software applications
constantly drive the innovations in database technologies.

In this talk, I will give an overview of my research on pervasive query
processing, which aims at enabling queries to be processed efficiently
anywhere.  As examples, I will present our work on developing
architecture-centric query processing techniques, enabling pervasive
computing applications through a query processing approach, and designing
scheduling schemes to support in-network sensor query processing. More
information about my research is at http://cse.hkust.edu.hk/catalac/.


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Biography:

Qiong Luo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, HKUST.  Her research interests are in database systems,
with emphasis on query processing techniques for emerging architectures,
pervasive computing and sensor networks. Qiong received her PhD degree in
Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002.