C. Mohan Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, China & Member, Board of Governors (Digital University Kerala, India) & Retired IBM Fellow (IBM Research, USA) "A Survey of Cloud Database Systems" ABSTRACT:  In this talk, I will first introduce traditional (non-cloud) parallel and distributed database systems. Concepts like SQL and NoSQL systems, data replication, distributed and parallel query […]

Abstract In the world of data analytics, domain experts, such as public health scientists and medical researchers, play a crucial role as their domain knowledge can unlock valuable insights from data. However, they face several challenges in the current landscape of data analytics tools. They often lack the technical skills necessary to analyze large datasets, […]

Abstract: As a powerful way for people to gain insights from data quickly and intuitively,  visualization is becoming increasingly important in the Big Data era. Considering data-visualization systems where a middleware layer translates a frontend request to a SQL query to a backend database to compute visual results.  In this talk, we study the problem of […]