Reading List

These are the papers that we will cover this semester. Please sign up for a presentation by sending me an email with your preferences indicating the number of the paper. You can list three papers in order of preference so that we will be able to resolve conflicts faster.
NOTE: Some of you may be interested in other topics, e.g., graph related work, than the ones in the list below. If you prefer to present a paper on a different topic, please look over the accepted papers in the leading DB conferences in the last 2 years. Choose up to 3 papers and rank them in your order of preference. We will choose one that will best fit the scope of the class and your interest.

  1. A Prolegomenon on OLTP Database Systems for NonVolatile Memory. DeBrabant et al. [read it]
    Presenter: TBD
  2. Actively Soliciting Feedback for Query Answers in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration. Zhepeng Yan, Nan Zheng, Zachary G. Ives, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Cong Yu. [read it]
    Presenter: Saroja Bhogadhi
  3. Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience. William Enck et al. [read it]
    Presenter: Tong Li
  4. Netdb: IP Network Configuration Debugger/Database. Anja Feldmann. [read it]
    Presenter: Alan John
  5. Declarative configuration management for complex and dynamic networks. Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao, and Jacobus Van der Merwe. [read it]
    Presenter: Michael Suleski
  6. Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization. Boon Thau Loo et al. [read it]
    Presenter: Haotian Chi
  7. Declarative Routing: Extensible Routing with Declarative Queries. Boon Thau Loo et al. [read it]
    Presenter: TBD
  8. NVRAMaware Logging in Transaction Systems. Jian Huang, Karsten Schwan, Moinuddin K. Qureshi. [read it]
    Presenter: Chenglong Fu
  9. Incremental Record Linkage. Anja Gruenheid, Xin Luna Dong, Divesh Srivastava. [read it]
    Presenter: Marija Stanojevic
  10. Practical Declarative Network Management. Timothy L. Hinrichs et al. [read it]
    Presenter: Branimir Ljubic
  11. Understanding the Causes of Consistency Anomalies in Apache Cassandr. Hua Fan (University of Waterloo), Aditya Ramaraju (University of Waterloo), Marlon McKenzie (University of Waterloo), Wojciech Golab (University of Waterloo), Bernard Wong (University of Waterloo). [read it]
    Presenter: TBD
  12. Schema Management for Document Stores. Lanjun Wang, Shuo Zhang, Juwei Shi, Limei Jiao, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Jia Zou, and Chen Wangz. [read it]
    Presenter: Lihong He
  13. Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems.Peter Bailis, Alan Fekete, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica. [read it]
    Presenter: Jasmine Dsouza
  14. Automated Network Repair with Meta Provenance. Yang Wu, Ang Chen, Andreas Haeberlen, Wenchao Zhou, and Boon Thau Loo. [read it]
    Presenter: Fan Yang
  15. Differential Provenance: Better Network Diagnostics with Reference Events. Ang Chen, Yang Wu, Andreas Haeberlen, Wenchao Zhou, and Boon Thau Loo. [read it]
    Presenter: Rajorshi Biswas
  16. The Good, the Bad, and the Differences: Better Network Diagnostics with Differential Provenance. Ang Chen, Yang Wu, Andreas Haeberlen, Wenchao Zhou, and Boon Thau Loo. [read it]
    Presenter: Meng Ye
  17. A Distributed and Robust SDN Control Plane for Transactional Network Updates. Marco Canini et al. [read it]
    Presenter: Yang Chen
  18. Software transactional networking: concurrent and consistent policy composition. Marco Canini, Petr Kuznetsov, Dan Levin, and Stefan Schmid. [read it]
    Presenter: Ashis Chanda
  19. Network Monitoring as a Streaming Analytics Problem. Arpit Gupta et al. [read it]
    Presenter: Abrar Alrumayh
  20. Representing and querying disease networks using graph databases. Artem Lysenko et al. [read it]
    Presenter: Ana Serafimovic