Research
I am associated with the Database Systems
Group at UC Santa Cruz. My research focuses on database
systems and more specifically on approximation techniques for semi-structured data, on-line database tuning, and data management in peer-to-peer systems.
Current projects:
Students I do research with:
Selected Publications (DBLP
Record)
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K. Schnaitter, N. Polyzotis, and L. Getoor, "Index Interactions in Physical Design Tuning: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications", in VLDB 2009.
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G. Candea, N. Polyzotis, and R. Vingralek, "A Scalable,
Predictable Join
Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses", in VLDB 2009.
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O. Greenshpan, T. Milo, and N. Polyzotis,
"Autocompletion for Mashups", in VLDB 2009.
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J. Finger and N. Polyzotis, "Robust and Efficient
Algorithms for Rank Join Evaluation", in
SIGMOD 2009.
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G. Chatzopoulou, M. Eirinaki, and N. Polyzotis, "Query
Recommendations for Interactive Database Exploration",
in SSDBM 2009.
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J. Spiegel and N. Polyzotis, "TuG synopses
for approximate query answering", ACM TODS, 34(1).
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K. Schnaiter, J. Spiegel, and N. Polyzotis, "Depth
Estimation for Ranking Query Optimization", VLDB
Journal, 18(2).
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K. Schnaitter and N. Polyzotis, "Evaluating Rank Joins
with Optimal Cost", in PODS 2008. (Best newcomer award)
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S. Abiteboul and N. Polyzotis, "The Data Ring: Community
Content Sharing", in CIDR 2007.
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N. Polyzotis and M. Garofalakis, "XSKETCH synopses
for XML data graphs", in ACM TODS, 31(3).
Teaching
Current and Upcoming
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I am currently on sabbatical leave until Spring 2010.
Past
- CMPS 181: Database Systems II (Spring 2005,
Spring 2006
,
Spring 2007,
Spring 2008
)
- CMPS 278: Design and Implementation of Database Systems (Winter 2005,Winter 2006,
Spring 2007,
Spring 2008, Winter 2009)
- CMPS 180: Database Systems (
Winter 2004 ,
Winter 2005,
Fall 2005,
Winter 2007,Winter 2008
)
- CMPS 290H: XML Databases (Spring 2004)
Bio
Education:
- Ph.D. Computer Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003.
- M.Sc. Computer Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000.
- Diploma: Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece, 1997.
Service:
- Current/Upcoming
- WWW 2010 - PC Member
- EDBT 2010 - PC Member
- ICDT 2010 - PC Member
- DBRank 2010 - PC Member
- SMDB 2010 - PC Member
- Past Service...
Here is a more detailed resume.
Misc
Note: This web-page does not include the parrot sketch
Last modified: April 2007
