Fine Grain Database System Performance Model

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SUBJECTS:
Adaptable/Extensible Systems

Parallel Information Retrieval

Interoperability

Distributed/Parallel File-System Caching

(Parallel) Database Performance

Submitted Papers (internal access only)

Adaptable/Extensible Systems

Parallel Information Retrieval

Interoperability

Distributed/Parallel File-System Caching

(Parallel) Database Performance

Submitted Papers (internal access only)

Adaptable/Extensible Systems

Parallel Information Retrieval

Interoperability

Distributed/Parallel File-System Caching

(Parallel) Database Performance

Submitted Papers (internal access only)

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Adaptable/Extensible Systems (inc OS)

Law G., J.A. McCann, Decomposition of Preemptive Scheduling in the Go! Component-Based Operating System ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, 2000.

Law G., J.A. McCann, '26 bit Selectors on IA32 for Component-Based Protection', ECOOP'2000, Workshop on Object Orientation and Operating Systems.2000

McCann J.A., Howlett P., Crane J.S., 'Kendra: Adaptive Internet System' accepted for publication in the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier Science, Volume 55, Issue 1, 5 November 2000 .pp 3-17

P. Kostkova, J.A. McCann, 'Inter-federation Communication in the MAGNET Architecture' published in the Thrid Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Mass. USA., Sept 2000

Law G., J.A. McCann,'A New Protection Model for Component-Based Operating Systems", in proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computing and Communications, Phoenix, Arizona, Feb. 2000,

Onozato Y., Yamamoto U., McCann J. A, Dowling G.R., Schroeder M., Tuson A., Nupairoj N., Kawashima K., Aida M., 'Server, Network and User Adaptivity in Multimedia Networks', Proc. International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA'99), 1999, pp815-818

McCann J. A,. Crane J.S.,'Kendra: Internet Distribution & Delivery System an introductory paper', Proc. SCS EuroMedia Conference, Leicester, UK, Ed. Verbraeck A., Al-Akaidi M., Society for Computer Simulation International, January 1998. pp134-140.

P. Kostkova, J.A. McCann, 'MAGNET: An Architecture for Dynamic Resource Allocation' Proc. of International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, ACM, August, 1999.

J.A. McCann, J.S. Crane, 'Component DBMS Architecture for Nomadic Computing', short paper in 16th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'98), Cardiff, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Parallel Information Retrieval

MacFarlane A., McCann J.A, Robertson S.E., PLIERS: A parallel information retrieval system using MPI, Proc.6th PVM / MPI European Users Meeting, Spain, September 26th-29th, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A. : Parallel Computing in Information Retrieval - An updated review. Journal of Documentation,. Vol. 53, No 3. The Association for Information Management, June 1997, pp 274-315.

MacFarlane A., Robertson S., McCann, J. A. : On Concurrency Control in Information retrieval Systems, 18th BCS IRSG Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Manchester Metropolitan University. Ed..Johnson F.C., British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, March 1996, pp67-79

MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A. : PLIERS at VLC2. In Proc. 7th Text Retrieval Conference, ed D.K.Harman, USA, November 1998

Interoperability and Middleware

Michael Schroeder, Julie McCann, Daniel Haynes. Rough traders and intelligent clients. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000. Barcelona, Spain. 2000. ACM Press - poster.

McCann J.A., Manning K.J. : Tool to Evaluate Performance in Distributed Heterogeneous Processing . Proc. 6th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Spain, Ed. Werner R., IEEE Computer Society, January 1998. pp180-185.

McCann J.A., : Performance in Distributed Heterogeneous Processing Survey Findings, Armenian Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, Published by Academy of Sciences of Armenia, September 25-29, pp304-306, 1997.

McCann J.A., Manning K.J. : Performance Management Tool for Interoperable Environments. Proc. of the 4th Annual Conference of the British Computer Society Client/Server Group, CSG '97, Cambridge, UK, 7-9 April 1997, Ed. Stone K., British Computer Society Client/Server Specialist Group. pp 60-70

MacFarlane A., McCann J.A., Liddell H. : A Common Data Model for Meta-Data in Interoperable Environments, Proceedings of the Second International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information Systems, Volume 1, Eds Haave H-M., Thalheim B., Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn. June 1996, pp 75-86

McCann, J. A., MacFarlane A., Liddell H.M., : Management Tools for Distributed Interoperable Environments, High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Belgium, April 1996. Lecture notes in Computer Science, Eds Liddell H., Colbrook A., Hertzberger B., Sloot P., Springer-Verlag, April 1996, pp.689-695.

Distributed/Parallel File-System and Web Caching

McCann J.A. : The Kendra Cache Replacement Policy and its Distribution, to be published in World Wide Web An International Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, Baltzer Science Publishers, ISSN 1386-145X, December 2000.pp231-240.

McCann J.A., N.J. Williams, P. Osmon : Dynamic File Migration to Support Parallel Database Systems, Proc. IEEE/ACM Workshop in Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems,ed Dowd P., Gelenbe E., IEEE Computer Society Press, January 1995. pp352-357.

J.A. McCann, A. Valsamidis, D. Bolton, N. Williams, X. Zhao: Multi-processor File-System Performance Modelling, chapter in Computer and Telecommunication Systems Performance Engineering, Eds. Woodward M.E., Datta S., Szumko S., Pentech Press, London, 1994. pp 40-49

shorter version in the Proceedings of 1993 UK Performance Engineering Workshop for Computer and Telecommunications Systems, BCS Society of Information Systems Engineering,1993. pp23-35, this paper is available as Compressed PostScript.

Parallel Databases and Database Performance

A.B. Chaudhri, J.M. McCann and P. Osmon (1999) A performance study of object database management systems. Accepted for publication in the Journal on Theory and Practice of Object Systems. Vol. 5, No. 4, 1999. pp. 263-279

McCann J A, Bell D A, : A Hybrid Benchmarking Model for Database Machine Performance Studies, chapter in Computer Benchmarks, eds. Dongarra J, Gentzsch W, North-Holland 1993. pp325-338.

J.A. McCann A Fine Grain Database System Performance Model. DPhil Thesis. University of Ulster at Jordanstown. 1992.

J.A. McCann: Simulating Performance of Parallel Database Systems, Proc. European Simulation Symposium, Netherlands. Eds. Verbraek A., Kerckhoffs E.J.H., European Simulation Symposium International, 1993. pp506-511. this paper is available as PostScript.

McCann J A, Bell D A, Shapcott C.M. : A Flexible Benchmarking Tool for Parallel Database Systems, Proc. of National Physical Laboratory conference on Parallel Processors - Benchmarking and Assessment, 1992

J.A. McCann, P.E. Osmon, D. Bolton, N. Williams, A. Valsamidis, X. Zhao: Distributed Memory Multi-processor Architecture for Relational Database Systems, Presented in Very Large Databases 1993 (Dublin, Eire), 2 pages, this paper is available as Text.

D. Bolton, J.A. McCann, P.E. Osmon, A. Valsamidis, N. Williams, X. Zhao: PRIMA: A Parallel Relational Database Machine Architecture, 22 pages, this paper is available as Compressed PostScript.

RAE Selelction

McCann J.A. : The Kendra Cache Replacement Policy and its Distribution, to be published in World Wide Web An International Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, Baltzer Science Publishers, December 2000.pp231-240. ISSN 1386-145X

McCann J.A., Howlett P., Crane J.S., 'Kendra: Adaptive Internet System' accepted for publication in the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier Science, Volume 55, Issue 1, 5 November 2000 .pp 3-17. ISSN 0164-1212

MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A. : Parallel Computing in Information Retrieval - An updated review. Journal of Documentation,. Vol. 53, No 3. The Association for Information Management, June 1997, pp 274-315.ISSN 0022-0418

A.B. Chaudhri, J.M. McCann and P. Osmon (1999) A performance study of object database management systems. Accepted for publication in the Journal on Theory and Practice of Object Systems. Vol. 5, No. 4, 1999. pp. 263-279 ISSN 1074-3227

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