Time

20:00-22:00, Jun. 30th, 2020

 

Location

ZOOM online

 

Abstract

Graphs are not new in database community – we have long used them to model and reason about database operations and some of our earliest systems were built on graph models. 

There has been a renewed in the last decade interest in using graphs model real-life phenomena in many domains. Recent studies suggest that there is interest among the user community in using graphs to model applications and data that have traditionally been considered the domain of relational systems. Despite intense research and development efforts in graph processing, these efforts are fragmented, and general purpose, scalable solutions are not yet available.

In this talk, I will provide a systematic look at the field and highlight some of the open research issues.

 

Lecturer

M. Tamer Özsu is a University Professor at Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. Previously, he was the Director of the Cheriton School and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Mathematics. Before Waterloo, he spent 16 years at the University of Alberta. His research is on distributed data management and the management of non-conventional data. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACM and IEEE, an elected member of Academy of Science of Turkey and a member of Sigma Xi. He currently holds a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship at the University of Waterloo.