Kraska, Tim

I am a Research Assistant (Ph.D. Student) at the Databases and Information Systems group of Prof. Dr. Donald Kossmann, Institute of Information Systems, ETH Zurich, currently working on databases in the cloud. [CV]

Expected graduation: fall 2009

If you are looking for a semester or master thesis don't hesitate to contact me.

Research Interests

• Databases in the cloud
• Highly scalable infrastructure
• New consistency and concurrency control models
• XML Data Stream Processing
• XML Query Processing

Projects

• Cloudy - a distributed storage service in the cloud
• Smoky - a distributed streaming service in the cloud
• CloudBench - a benchmark for the cloud
• Mapping Data to Queries (MDQ) - data integration with XQuery
• Zorba - a general purpose XQuery processor implementing in C++

Publications

• Tim Kraska, Martin Hentschel, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann:
  Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters. VLDB, Lyon, France, 2009. [slides]
• Roger Bamford, Vinayak Borkar, Matthias Brantner, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, David Graf, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Dan Muresan, Sorin Nasoi, Markos Zacharioudakis:
  XQuery Reloaded (Industrial Paper). VLDB, Lyon, France, 2009. [slides]
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Simon Loesing:
  How is the Weather tomorrow? Towards a Benchmark for the Cloud. DBTest Workshop (SIGMOD 2009), Providence, USA, 2009. [slides]
• Ghislain Fourny, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Darin McBeath:
  XQuery in the Browser. WWW, Madrid, Spain, 2009.
• Matthias Brantner, David Graf, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska
  Building a Database on S3. SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, 2008 [slides].
• Ghislain Fourny, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu
  XQuery in the Browser. (Demo Paper), SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, 2008.
• Tim Kraska (ed)
  XML Query (XQuery) 1.1 Use Cases. W3C Working Draft, 2008.
• Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius
  Extending XQuery with Window Functions. VLDB, Vienna, Austria, 2007.
• Tim Kraska and Uwe Röhm
  Genea: Schema-Aware Mapping of Ontologies into Relational Databases. COMAD, Delhi, India, 2006.
• Joshua Wing Kei Ho, Tristan Manwaring, Seok-Hee Hong, Uwe Röhm, David Cho Yau Fung, Kai Xu, Tim Kraska, David Hart
  PathBank: Web-Based Querying and Visualziation of an Integrated Biological Pathway Database. CGIV, Sydney, Australia, 2006.

Technical Reports

• Martin Hentschel, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Jonas Rutishauser, and Daniela Florescu
  Mapping Data to Queries: Semantics of the IS-A Rule. Technical Report, ETH Zurich, November 2007.
• Ghislain Fourny, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu
  XQuery in the Browser. Technical Report, ETH Zürich, November 2007.
• Peter M. Fischer, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius
  Windows for XQuery – Use Cases. Technical Report, ETH Zurich, Nov 2006
• Irina Carabus, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius
  Extending XQuery with Window Functions. Technical Report, ETH Zurich, Nov 2006

Theses

• Tim Kraska
  Continuous XQuery Processing. Master Thesis in Information Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) , Switzerland and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, 2006. The proposed language extension got accepted at the W3C for XQuery 1.1
• Tim Kraska
  Genea Store: Storing OWL in Relational Databases using Generic Mapping Rules - Building an Integrated Database for Metabolic Pathways. Master Thesis in Information Technology at the University of Sydney, Australia with the National ICT Australia (NICTA) and AxoGenic, Australia, 2005
• Tim Kraska
  Analyzing data of sales promotions to derive conceptual controlling instruments. Bachelor Thesis in Information Systems at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany with Deutsche Woolworth GmbH & Co OHG, Germany, 2004

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Database Introduction lecture, summer term 2009, ETH Zürich
• Teaching Assistant, XML and Database lecture, winter term 2007, ETH Zürich
• Teaching Assistant, Database Introduction lecture, summer term 2007, ETH Zürich
• Teaching Assistant, Algorithms and data structures lecture, summer term 2004, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
• Private lecturer, Introduction to Databases and Introduction to Microsoft Office, 06/2001 to 01/2004, Erwachsenenbildungswerk Westfalen, Germany

Other Professional Activities

• Member of the W3C XQuery Working Group
• Member of the FLWOR Foundation

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