Publications

Publications

All publications have been moved to the Systems Group Publications. 

Recent Talks

• Donald Kossmann: What is new in the cloud. Keynote for the ICDE 2010 Conference, Long Beach, CA, USA, March 2010.
• Matthias Brantner, Donald Kossmann: Sausalito: An Application Server for RESTful Services in the Cloud. Workshop on Database as a Service, Münster, Germany, March 2009.
• Donald Kossmann: Building a Web Application without a Database Systems. Keynote for the EDBT 2008 Conference, Nantes, France, March 2008.
• Donald Kossmann: Predicate-based Indexing of Annotated Data. SAP, Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 2007.
• Donald Kossmann: Testing Database Applications. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 2007.

Papers

2010

• Martin Hentschel, Laura Haas, Renée J. Miller. Just-in-time Data Integration In Action (Demo Paper). VLDB 2010, Singapore, Singapore, 2010. Poster
• Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Simon Loesing. An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud. SIGMOD 2010, Indianapolis, USA, 2010.
• Georgios Giannikis, Philipp Unterbrunner, Jeremy Meyer, Gustavo Alonso, Dietmar Fauser, Donald Kossman. Crescando (Demo Paper). SIGMOD 2010, Indianapolis, USA, 2010.
• Laura M. Haas, Renée J. Miller, Donald Kossmann, and Martin Hentschel: A First Step Towards Integration Independence, International Workshop on New Trends in Information Integration (NTII), 2010.

2009

• Laura M. Haas, Martin Hentschel, Donald Kossmann, and Renée J. Miller: Schema AND Data: A Holistic Approach to Mapping, Resolution and Fusion in Information Integration, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2009
• Ghislain Fourny, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Markos Zacharioudakis, A Time Machine for XML, Technical Report, ETH Zurich, November 2009.
• Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili , Renee J. Miller, Stream Schema: Providing and Exploiting Static Metadata for Data Stream Processing, Technical Report, ETH Zurich, June 2009.
• Philipp Unterbrunner, Georgios Giannikis, Gustavo Alonso, Dietmar Fauser, Donald Kossmann: Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads. VLDB 2009, Lyon, France.
• Tim Kraska, Martin Hentschel, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann: Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters. VLDB 2009, Lyon, France.
• Martin Hentschel, Donald Kossmann, Dana Florescu, Laura M. Haas, Tim Kraska, and Renée J. Miller: Scalable Data Integration by Mapping Data to Queries, Technical Report 633, ETH Zurich, Systems Group, Dept. of Computer Science, July 2009
• 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.
• Carsten Binnig, Stefan Hildenbrand, Franz Faerber (SAP AG): Dictionary-based Order-preserving String Compression for Main Memory Column Stores. SIGMOD 2009, Providence, USA.
• Ghislain Fourny, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Darin McBeath: XQuery in the Browser. WWW 2009, Madrid, Spain.
• Irina Botan, Gustavo Alonso, Peter Fischer, Donald Kossmann, Nesime Tatbul: Flexible and Scalable Storage Management for Data-intensive Stream Processing. EDBT 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Cristian Duda, Gianni Frey, Donald Kossmann, Reto Matter, Chong Zhou: AJAX Crawl: Making AJAX Applications Searchable. ICDE 2009, Shanghai, China.
• Matthias Brantner, Daniela Florescu, David Graf, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska: Building a Database in the Cloud, Technical Report, ETH Zurich, 2009.
• Nitin Gupta, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Philipp Unterbrunner, Walker White: Scalability for Virtual Worlds (Short Paper). ICDE 2009, Shanghai, China.

2008

• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann. Rethinking the Cost and Performance of Database Systems. Submitted for publication, December 2008.
• Cristian Duda, Gianni Frey, Donald Kossmann, Chong Zhou AJAX Search: Crawling, Indexing and Searching AJAX Applications Demo Paper, VLDB 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008.
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi Adding Structure to Web Search with iTrails IIMAS Workshop, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi Managing Personal Information using iTrails SIGCHI PIM Workshop, Florence, Italy, 2008.
• Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles Dwarfs in the Rearview Mirror: How Big are they really? VLDB 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008.
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: Multi-RQP: generating test databases for the functional testing of OLTP applications. DBTest 2008 (SIGMOD 2008 Workshop).
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo, Angel Saenz-Badillos: Automatic Result Verification for the Functional Testing of a Query Language. ICDE 2008.
• Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Swart, Lin Qiao, Frederick Reiss, Vijay Dialani, Donald Kossmann, Inderpal Narang, Richard Sidle: Constant-Time Query Processing. ICDE 2008.
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: Towards Automatic Test Database Generation. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 31(1)/2008.
• Matthias Brantner, Daniela Florescu, David A. Graf, Donald Kossmann, and Tim Kraska. Building a database on S3. SIGMOD Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
• Ghislain Fourny, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu. XQuery in the browser. Demo Paper, SIGMOD Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.

2007

• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Olivier René Girard, Lukas Blunschi: iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces. VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria. video
• Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius: Extending XQuery with Window Functions, VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 2007
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo, Tamer Ozsu: QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases, SIGMOD 2007.
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: Reverse Query Processing, ICDE 2007. (Full details are given in the Technical Report.)
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Cristian Duda, Bjoern Jarisch, Donald Kossmann, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles: Bringing Precision to Desktop Search: A Predicate-based Desktop Search Architecture, ICDE 2007 (Poster)
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Markus Färber, Olivier René Girard, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles: From Personal Desktops to Personal Dataspaces: A Report on Building the iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System. BTW 2007: 292-308, Aachen, Germany.
• Florian Haftmann, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: A Framework for Efficient Regression Tests of Database Applications. The VLDB Journal (The Best of VLDB 2005).
• Rene Müller, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann: A Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks, EuroSys 2007.
• Rene Müller, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann: SwissQM: Next Generation Data Processing in Sensor Networks, CIDR 2007.
• Cristian Duda, David Graf, Donald Kossmann: Predicate-based Indexing of Enterprise Web Applications, Demo Paper, CIDR 2007, Asilomar, USA.
• Lukas Blunschi, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Olivier René Girard, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles: A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System. Demo Paper, CIDR 2007, Asilomar, USA.

2006

• Ulrich Dinger, Donald Kossmann, Christian Reichel: OpenXL: An Adaptable Web-Service Middleware, Technical Report, ETH Zurich, December 2006.
• Peter M. Fischer, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius: Windows for XQuery – Use Cases, Technical Report, ETH Zurich, Nov 2006.
• Donald Kossmann, Gustavo Alonso: Software Mass Customization(in German), GI Datenbank Spektrum, November 2006
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Cristian Duda, Bjoern Jarisch, Donald Kossmann, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles: Keyword Search in Application Data, Technical Report, ETH Zurich, Nov 2006
• Ulrich Dinger, Roy Oberhauser, Christian Reichel: SWS-ASE:Leveraging Web Service-based Software Engineering, ICSEA 2006, October 29 - November 1, 2006, "Best Paper" award.
• Ulrich Dinger, Roy Oberhauser, Christian Reichel: A Semantic Web Services Approach Towards Automated Software Engineering, ICWS 2006, Work-in-Progress Track, Chicago, USA.
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles: iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management. VLDB 2006: 367-378, Seoul, Korea.
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich: iMeMex: A Platform for Personal Dataspace Management. VLDB 2006 Ph.D. Workshop.
• Jens-Peter Dittrich: iMeMex: A Platform for Personal Dataspace Management. SIGIR PIM 2006.
• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann: Programming for XML. SIGMOD 2006 (Tutorial).
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: Testing Database Applications. SIGMOD 2006 (Demo).
• Donald Chamberlin, Michael J. Carey, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Jonathan Robie: XQueryP: Programming with XQuery. XIME-P 2006.

2005

• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Donald Kossmann, Lukas Blunschi: iMeMex: Escapes from the Personal Information Jungle. VLDB 2005: 1306-1309. (Demo Paper)
• Florian Haftmann, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: Parallel Execution of Test Runs for Database Application Systems. VLDB 2005: 589-600.
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Donald Kossmann, Alexander Kreutz: Bridging the Gap between OLAP and SQL. VLDB 2005: 1031-1042. (Industry Track)
• Cristian Duda, Donald Kossmann: Adaptive XML Storage or The Importance of Being Lazy. XIME-P Workshop (Poster).
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Peter M. Fischer, Donald Kossmann: AGILE: Adaptive Indexing for Context-Aware Information Filters. SIGMOD 2005: 215-226.
• Donald Kossmann, Christian Reichel: SLL: Running My Web Services on Your WS Platform (Poster). WWW 2005. A longer version appeared in ICWS 2005 (Industry Track).
• Peter M. Fischer, Donald Kossmann: Batched Processing for Information Filters. ICDE 2005: 902-913.
• Florian Haftmann, Donald Kossmann, Alexander Kreutz: Efficient Regression Tests for Database Application Systems. CIDR 2005: 95-106.

2004

• Yanlei Diao, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Michael J. Carey, Michael J. Franklin: Implementing Memoization in a Streaming XQuery Processor. XML Symposium 2004.
• Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillery, Donald Kossmann, Paul Lucas, Fabio Riccardi, Till Westmann, Michael J. Carey, Arvind Sundararajan: The BEA Streaming XQuery Processor. VLDB Journal 13(3): 294-315 (2004).
• Christian Reichel, Roy Oberhauser, XML-based Programming Language Modeling: An Approach to Software Engineering, Proceedings of SEA 2004, MIT Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2004
• Donald Kossmann, Frank Leymann: Web Services. Informatik Spektrum 27(2): 117-128 (2004).
• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann: XML Query Processing. Tutorial for ICDE 2004.

2003

• Yanlei Diao, Mehmet Altinel, Michael J. Franklin, Hao Zhang, Peter Fischer: Path Sharing and Predicate Evaluation for High-Performance XML Filtering. TODS 28(4):467-516 (2003)
• Reinhard Braumandl, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Quality of Service in an Information Economy. ACM Transaction on Internet Technology 2003: 233-291
• Daniela Florescu, Andreas Grünhagen, Donald Kossmann: XL: An XML Programming Language for Web Service Specification and Composition. Computer Networks Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Web), Volume 42 - Issue 5, August 2003, Elsevier Science
• Daniela Florescu, Andreas Grünhagen, Donald Kossmann: XL: a platform for Web Services. CIDR 2003
• Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillery, Donald Kossmann, Paul Lucas, Fabio Riccardi, Till Westmann, Michael J. Carey, Arvind Sundararajan, Geetika Agrawal: The BEA/XQRL Streaming XQuery Processor. VLDB 2003: 997-1008

2002

• Markus Keidl, Alexander Kreutz, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: A Publish & Subscribe Architecture for Distributed Metadata Management. ICDE 2002: 309-318
• Daniela Florescu, Andreas Grünhagen, Donald Kossmann, Steffen Rost: XL: a platform for web services. SIGMOD Conference 2002: 625
• Donald Kossmann, Frank Ramsak, Steffen Rost: Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries. VLDB 2002: 275-286
• Daniela Florescu, Andreas Grünhagen, Donald Kossmann: XL: an XML programming language for web service specification and composition. WWW 2002: 65-76
• Markus Keidl, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Alexander Kreutz: Verteilte Metadatenverwaltung und Anfragebearbeitung für Internet-Datenquellen. Informatik Forsch. Entw. 17(3): 123-134 (2002)

2001

• Markus Keidl, Alexander Kreutz, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Verteilte Metadatenverwaltung für die Anfragebearbeitung auf Internet-Datenquellen. BTW 2001: 107-126
• Andreas Gärtner, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Bernhard Zeller: Efficient Bulk Deletes in Relational Databases. ICDE 2001: 183-192
• Stephan Börzsönyi, Donald Kossmann, Konrad Stocker: The Skyline Operator. ICDE 2001: 421-430
• Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumandl, Alfons Kemper: Integrating Semi-Join-Reducers into State of the Art Query Processors. ICDE 2001: 575-584
• Ioana Manolescu, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann: Answering XML Queries on Heterogeneous Data Sources. VLDB 2001: 241-250
• Reinhard Braumandl, Markus Keidl, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Stefan Seltzsam, Konrad Stocker: ObjectGlobe: Open Distributed Query Processing Services on the Internet. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(1): 64-70 (2001)
• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann: An XML Programming Language for Web Service Specification and Composition. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(2): 48-56 (2001)
• Reinhard Braumandl, Markus Keidl, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Alexander Kreutz, Stefan Seltzsam, Konrad Stocker: ObjectGlobe: Ubiquitous query processing on the Internet. VLDB Journal 10(1): 48-71 (2001)

2000

• Ioana Manolescu, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Florian Xhumari, Dan Olteanu: Agora: Living with XML and Relational. VLDB 2000: 623-626
• Donald Kossmann: The State of the art in distributed query processing. ACM Computing Surveys 32(4): 422-469 (2000)
• Till Westmann, Donald Kossmann, Sven Helmer, Guido Moerkotte: The Implementation and Performance of Compressed Databases. SIGMOD Record 29(3): 55-67 (2000)
• Donald Kossmann, Konrad Stocker: Iterative dynamic programming: a new class of query optimization algorithms. TODS 25(1): 43-82 (2000)
• Donald Kossmann, Michael J. Franklin, Gerhard Drasch: Cache investment: integrating query optimization and distributed data placement. TODS 25(4): 517-558 (2000)
• Reinhard Braumandl, Jens Claußen, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Functional-Join Processing. VLDB Journal 8(3-4): 156-177 (2000)
• Jens Claussen, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Christian Wiesner: Exploiting early sorting and early partitioning for decisionsupport query processing. VLDB Journal 9(3): 190-213 (2000)
• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Ioana Manolescu: Integrating keyword search into XML query processing. WWW9 / Computer Networks 33(1-6): 119-135 (2000)

1999

• Jens Claußen, Donald Kossmann: Die Deutsche Fußball-Börse: Erfahrungen mit einer ``klassischen'' Internet-Datenbankanwendung. BTW 1999: 59-68
• Reinhard Braumandl, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Database Patchwork on the Internet. SIGMOD Conference 1999: 550-552
• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Christian Wiesner: Generalised Hash Teams for Join and Group-by. VLDB 1999: 30-41
• Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Ioana Ursu: Loading a Cache with Query Results. VLDB 1999: 351-362
• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann: A Performance Evaluation of Alternative Mapping Schemes for Storing XML Data in a Relational Database. Rapport de Recherche No. 3680, INRIA 1999
• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Bernhard Zeller: Performance Tuning for SAP R/3. Data Engineering Bulletin 22(2): 32-39 (1999)
• Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann: Storing and Querying XML Data using an RDMBS. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 22(3): 27-34 (1999)

1998

• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Florian Matthes: SAP R/3: A Database Application System (Tutorial). SIGMOD Conference 1998: 499
• Michael J. Carey, Donald Kossmann: Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine. VLDB 1998: 158-169
• Jens Claussen, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Order-Preserving Hash Joins: Sorting (Almost) For Free. Technical Report MIP-9810, Universität Passau, August 1998

1997

• Jochen Doppelhammer, Thomas Höppler, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Database Performance in the Real World - TPC-D and SAP R/3 (Experience Paper). SIGMOD Conference 1997: 123-134
• Michael J. Carey, Donald Kossmann: On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL. SIGMOD Conference 1997: 219-230
• Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers, Jun Yang: Optimizing Queries Across Diverse Data Sources. VLDB 1997: 276-285
• André Eickler, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Finding Data in the Neighborhood. VLDB 1997: 336-345
• Michael J. Carey, Donald Kossmann: Processing Top N and Bottom N Queries. Data Engineering Bulletin 20(3): 12-19 (1997)

1996

• Michael J. Franklin, Björn Þór Jónsson, Donald Kossmann: Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing. SIGMOD Conference 1996: 149-160
• Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers, Jun Yang: An Optimizer for Heterogeneous Systems with NonStandard Data and Search Capabilities. Data Engineering Bulletin 19(4): 37-44 (1996)

1995

• André Eickler, Carsten Andreas Gerlhof, Donald Kossmann: A Performance Evaluation of OID Mapping Techniques. VLDB 1995: 18-29
• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Adaptable Pointer Swizzling Strategies in Object Bases: Design, Realization, and Quantitative Analysis. VLDB Journal 4(3): 519-566 (1995)
• Donald Kossmann: Efficient Main-Memory Management of Persistent Objects. Ph. D. Thesis, RWTH Aachen. Shaker-Verlag, Aachen, 1995

1994

• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Dual-Buffering Strategies in Object Bases. VLDB 1994: 427-438

1993

• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Adaptable Pointer Swizzling Strategies in Object Bases. ICDE 1993: 155-162

1992

• Kai Bruns, Christoph Kilger, Donald Kossmann, Guido Moerkotte, Hans-Dirk Walter, Andreas Zachmann: Objekte in multiplen Repräsentationen. Datenbank Rundbrief 10: 39-40 (1992)