rafee@rangkom.MY (M Rafee Yusoff) (04/03/89)
I am interested to do my Doctoral research in the area of Distributed Databases. I would like to start a discus- sion and collect information on the present state-of-the-art technology and future directions of Distributed Databases with regard to research, development and application. The scope of this subject is probably very large and specialized not to mention difficult. Fundamental issues such as integrating existing databases (heterogeneous or homogeneous), and query optimization for distributed DBMS are still not very clearly defined. Software activities in this area need to be speeded-up to utilize the hardware and network technology advancements. What could interesting is to identify commercially available database systems that claim to have Distributed Database features. It would also be interesting to identify possible research areas. For a start, I would like to collect comments, refer- ences to state-of-the-art books, journals, articles, etc. If there is sufficent response, I would post a summary for further discussion. Thanks in advance. Rafee -------------------------------------------------------------------------- {uunet mcvax munnari indogtw indovax etrivax sorak kaist}!rangkom.MY!rafee or rafee@rangkom.MY ---------------- M. Rafee Y. MIMOS 7th. Floor, Bukit Naga Complex Off Jalan Semantan Damansara Height 50490 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA Tel : 6-03-255-2700 Fax : 6-03-255-2755 Telex: MIMOS MA 28145 --------------------------------------------------------------------------