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Panos Kypros Chrysanthis
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director, Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory
University of Pittsburgh
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2003

  • S. Mazumdar and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Achieving Consistency in Mobile Databases through Localization in PRO-MOTION.'' ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks (forthcoming 2003).
  • E. Pitoura, P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``Characterizing the Temporal and Semantic Coherency of Broadcast-based Data Dissemination.'' Proc. of the International Conference on Database Theory, Jan. 2003. (To appear)
  • P. K. Chrysanthis, K. Pruhs, and V. Liberatore. ``Middleware Support for Multicast-based Data Dissemination: A Working Reality.'' Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Jan. 2003. (To appear)
  • G. Samaras, G. Kyrou and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Two-Phase Commit Processing with Restructured Commit Tree.'' Post Proc. of the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics and Computer Science, LNCS series, 2003. (Expanded version of the conference paper), 2003. (To appear)

2002

  • M. A. Sharaf and P. K. Chrysanthis. "Semantic-Based Delivery of OLAP Summary Tables in Wireless Environments." Proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, VA, Nov. 2002
  • S. Weissman Lauzac and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``View Propagation and Inconsistency Detection for Cooperative Mobile Agents.'' Proc. of IFCIS/VLDB Cooperative Information Systems, Irvine, CA, Nov. 2002.
  • E. Pitoura and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Multiversion Wireless Data Broadcasting.'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, 51(10):1224-1230, Oct. 2002.
  • M. A. Sharaf and P. K. Chrysanthis. "Facilitating Mobile Decision Making." Proc. of the 2nd ACM Mobicom International Workshop on Mobile Commerce, Atlanta, GA, Sept. 2002.
  • O. Shigiltchoff, P. K. Chrysanthis and E. Pitoura. ``Multiversion Data Broadcast Organizations.'' Proc. of the 6th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, pp. 135--148, Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept. 2002.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis and V. Zadoronzhny. ``From Location Databases to Pervasive Catalog.'' Proc. of the 10th DEXA Int'l Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, pp. 739-744, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sept. 2002.
  • P. Prasithsangaree, P. Krishnamurthy, and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``On Indoor Position Location with Wireless LANs.'' Proc. of the 13th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2002.
  • M. A. Sharaf and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``On-Demand Broadcast: New Challenges and Scheduling Algorithms,'' Proc. of the 1st Hellenic Conference on the Management of Data, Athens, Greece, July 2002.
  • S. Weissman Lauzac and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Personalizing Information Gathering for Mobile Database Clients.'' Proc. of the 17th ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 49--56, Madrid, Spain, Mar. 2002.
  • A. Berfield, Y. Tsamardinos, P. K. Chrysanthis, M. Pollack and S. Banerjee. ``A Scheme for Integrating E-Services in Establishing Virtual Enterprises.'' Proc. of 12th IEEE Int'l Workshop on Research Issues in Data Enginnering, pp. 134--142, San Jose, CA, Feb. 2002.
  • S. Banerjee and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Peer Support in a Mobile World'' Proc. of the NSF Workshop on Context-Aware Data Management, Jan. 2002.

2001

  • S. Mazumdar, M. Pietrzyk and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Caching Constrained Mobile Data.'' Proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp.442--449, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2001.
  • A. Berfield, Bill Simons, P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Pruhs. ``Better Client OFF Time Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques.'' Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, pp. 39--46, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2001.
  • G. Samaras, G. Kyrou and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Structuring the Commit Tree for Better Performance of Two Phase Commit Processing.'' Proc. of the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics and Computer Science, Cyprus, Nov. 2001.
  • S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, G. Samaras, and E. Pitoura. ``An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches to Web Database Access.'' International Journal of Cooperative information Systems, 10(4): 401--422, 2001.
  • S. Banerjee, P. K. Chrysanthis and A. Deshpande. ``Scalable Performance through Cooperative Data Shipping.'' Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Dallas, TX, Aug. 2001.
  • R. Agrawal and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Efficient Data Dissemination to Mobile Clients in E-Commerce Applications.'' Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Electronic Commerce and Web Information Systems, pp. 58-65, San Jose, CA, June 2001.

2000

  • S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, G. Samaras, and E. Pitoura. ``An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches to Web Database Access.'' Proc. of IFCIS/VLDB Cooperative Information Systems, pp. 102--113, Israel, Sept. 2000.
  • Y. J. Al-Houmaily and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``An Atomic Commit Protocol for Gigabit-Networked Distributed Database Systems.'' Journal of Systems Architecture, The EuroMicro Journal, 46(9): 809-833, June 2000.
  • S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura. ``A Survey of the Java based Approaches for Web Database Access.'' Proc. of the 10th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Cyprus, May 2000.

1999

  • E. Pitoura and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Exploiting Versions for Handling Updates in Broadcast Disks.'' Proc. of the 25th Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pp. 114-125, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 1999.
  • S. Mazumdar and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Achieving Consistency in Mobile Databases through Localization in PRO-MOTION.'' Proc. of the 10th DEXA Int'l Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, pp. 82-89, Florence, Italy, Sept. 1999.
  • E. Pitoura and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Scalable Processing of Read-Only Transactions in Broadcast Push.'' Proc. of the 19th IEEE Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 432--439, Austin, TX, June 1999.
  • Y. J. Al-Houmaily and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Atomicity with Incompatible Presumptions.'' Proc. of the 8th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pp. 306--315, Phildelphia, PA, June 1999.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis, T. F. Znati, S. Banerjee and S. K. Chang, ``Establishing Virtual Enterprises by means of Mobile Agents.'' Proc. of the 9th IEEE Int'l Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, pp. 116-125, Sydney, Australia, March 1999.
  • G. D. Walborn and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Transaction Processing in PRO-MOTION'' Proc. of the 14th ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 389--398, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 1999.
  • S. Weissman Lauzac and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Utilizing Versions of Views within a Mobile Environment.'' Journal of Computing and Information, Special Issue on the ICCI-98: 9th International Conference on Computing and Information, 1999.
  • S. Banerjee and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Group Two-Phase Locking: A Scalable Data Sharing Protocol.'' IEICE Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. E82-D, No. 1, pp. 236--245, Jan. 1999.

1998

  • Y. J. Al-Houmaily, R. Conticello, J. Pike and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Performance of Five Atomic Commit Protocols in Gigabit-Networked Database Systems.'' Proc. of 11th Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 29--36, Chicago, Sept. 1998.
  • S. Weissman Lauzac and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Programming Views for Mobile Database Clients.'' Proc. of the 9th DEXA Int'l Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, pp. 408-413, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 1998.
  • S. Weissman Lauzac and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Utilizing Versions of Views within a Mobile Environment.'' Proc. of the 9th Int'l Conference on Computing and Information, pp. 201--208, Canada, June 1998.
  • S. Banerjee and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Network Latency Optimizations in Distributed Database Systems.'' Proc. of the 13th Int'l Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 532--540, Feb. 1998.

1997

  • G. D. Walborn and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``PRO-MOTION: Support for Mobile Database Access.'' Personal Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 3, Sept. 1997.
  • S. Banerjee and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Performance Evaluation of the g-2PL Protocol.'' Proc. of the 10th Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 717-724, New Orleans, Sept. 1997.
  • Al-Houmaily, Y., P. Chrysanthis and S. Levitan. ``An Argument in Favor of the Presumed Commit Protocol.'' Proc. of the 13th Int'l Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 255--265, Birmingham, U.K., Apr. 1997.
  • G. D. Walborn and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``PRO-MOTION: Management of Mobile Transactions.'' Proc. of the 12th ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 101--108, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1997.
  • Al-Houmaily, Y., P. Chrysanthis and S. Levitan. ``Enhancing the Performance of Presumed Commit Protocol.'' Proc. of the 12h ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 131--133, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1997.

1996

  • P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Guest Editor's Introducation to Special Issue on Workflow Systems'', Distributed Systems Engineering, 3(4):211--212, IEE/BCS, December 1996.
  • S. T. Frezza, S. Levitan, and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Linking Requirements and Design Data for Automated Functional Evaluation.'' Computers in Industry, Vol. 30, pp. 13-25, September 1996.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``Correctness Criteria and Concurrency Control.'' Multidatabase Systems, A. Sheth, A.K. Elmagarmid and M. Rusinkiewicz, Eds., Morgan Kaufmann (to be published at the end of 1996).
  • S. Banerjee, and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``A New Token Passing Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm.'' Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , pp. 717-724, Hong-Kong, May 1996.
  • Y. J. Al-Houmaily and P.K. Chrysanthis. ``Dealing with Incompatible Presumptions of Commit Protocols in Multidatabase Systems''. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, February 1996.

1995

  • P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Serializability-based Correctness Criteria.'' Performance of Concurrency Control Mechanisms in Centralized Database Management Systems, Vijaya Kumar Ed., Prentice Hall.
  • Y. J. Al-Houmaily and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Two-Phase Commit in Gigabit-Networked Distributed Databases.'' Proceedings of the 8th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 554-560, Sept. 1995.
  • S. T. Frezza, S. Levitan, and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Linking ``Requirements-Based Design Evaluation.'' Proc. of the 32nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference , pp. 76-81, San Francisco, CA, June 1995.

1994

  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. "ACTA: a framework for specifying and reasoning about transaction structure and behavior.'' Readings in Database Systems, 2nd ed., M. Stonebraker, Ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1994, pp. 335-344.

1993

  • K. Ramamritham and P. K. Chrysanthis. "In Search for the Acceptability Criteria: Database Consistency Requirements and Transaction Correctness Properties." Distributed Object Management, Ozsu, Dayal, and Valduriez Ed., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1993. (First version published in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Distributed Object Management, August 1992.)
  • C. T. Liu, P. K. Chrysanthis and S.K. Chang. ``Schema Evolution through Changes to ER Diagrams.'' Journal of Information Science and Engineering, 9(4):657-683, December 1993.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``Delegation in ACTA as a Means to Control Sharing in Extended Transactions," IEEE Data Engineering, 16(2): 16-19, June 1993.
  • A. Massari, G. Costagliola, P. K. Chrysanthis and S.K. Chang. ``Programs as Databases: Treating Code and Comments as First Class Objects,'' The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 78-85, June 1993.
  • C. T. Liu, S.K. Chang and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``An Entity-Relationship Approach to Schema Evolution.'' Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computing and Information, pp. 575-578, May 1993.

1992

  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. "ACTA: The SAGA Continues." Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications, A. K. Elmagarmid Ed., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992.
  • K. DiBella, K. Ramamritham, P. K. Chrysanthis, S. Raghuram. ``Scheduling Algorithms and their Performance on Shared Memory Multiprocessors,'' The Proceedings of the 5th ISMM Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 133-139, October 1992.
  • K. Ramamritham and P. K. Chrysanthis. "In Search for the Acceptability Criteria: Database Consistency Requirements and Transaction Correctness Properties." Proceedings of the International Workshop on Distributed Object Management, pp. 211-229, Canada, August 1992.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``ACTA: A Comprehensive TransAction Framework for Extended Transactions,'' Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Transaction and Query Processing, pp. 221, Phoenix, AZ, February 1992.

1991

  • P. K. Chrysanthis. ``ACTA, A Framework for Modeling and Reasoning about Extended Transactions Models,'' Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, September 1991.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``A Formalism for Extended Transaction Models," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on VLDB, pp. 103-111, September 1991.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis, S. Raghuram, K. Ramamritham. ``Extracting Concurrency from Objects: A Methodology,'' Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 108-117, May 1991.

1990

  • P. K. Chrysanthis ``Redefining Transactions: A Formal Approach,'' Proceedings of the 1990 ECOOP/OOPSLA Workshop on Transactions and Objects, pp. 11-16, Canada, October 1990.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior," Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 194-203, May 1990.
    (Also, included in Readings in Database Systems, Second Edition, M. Stonebraker Editor, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994.)

1980s

  • P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. ``Capturing the Structure and the Behavior of Complex Transactions." Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Large Grain Parallelism, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1989.
  • E. Moss, B. Leban and P. K. Chrysanthis. ``Finer Grained Concurrency Control for the Database Cache,'' Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 96-103, Los Angeles, CA, February 1987.
  • P. K. Chrysanthis, K. Ramamritham, D. Stemple and S. Vinter. ``The Gutenberg Operating System Kernel,'' Proceedings of the 1986 ACM/IEEE Fall Joint Computer Conference, pp. 1159-1168, Dallas, TX, November 1986.


panos@cs.pitt.edu Last update: 13 June 2006