Dr.Matthias Nicola

Diplom-Informatiker

Department of Computer Science (Information Systems)
Lehrstuhl für Informatik V
Technical University of Aachen
Ahornstr. 55
52056 Aachen, GERMANY

email: mn@matthiasnicola.de
www.matthiasnicola.de

Research interests: distributed databases, replica management, transaction processing concepts, data warehousing, information systems in developing countries, health care information systems, wireless information systems, wireless data communication, performance evaluations, analytical modelling of information systems, database tuning, benchmarks, . . . .

Publications:

Matthias Nicola, M. Jarke: "Performance Modeling of Distributed and Replicated Databases", Revised Survey, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 645-672, July/August 2000.

Matthias Jarke, Matthias Nicola: "Telecommunication Databases: Applications and Performance Analysis", VLDB Workshop on Databases in Telecommunication, September 6th, 1999, Edinburgh. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1819, Springer, 2000).

Matthias Nicola: "Performance Evaluation of Distributed, Replicated, and Wireless Information Systems", Doctoral Thesis, November 1999, ISSN 0935-3232.

R. Gallersdörfer, M. Jarke, Matthias Nicola: "The ADR Replication Manager", International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCS), Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 15-45, 1999.

Matthias Nicola, M.Jarke: "Increasing the Expressiveness of Analytical Performance Models for Replicated Databases", International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT'99, Jerusalem, January 1999. (Abstract)

Matthias Nicola, M.Jarke: "Performance Modeling of Distributed and Replicated Databases", (Survey), Technical Report AIB-98-10, RWTH Aachen.

Matthias Nicola, M.Jarke: "Design and Evaluation of Wireless Health Care Information Systems in Developing Countries", Proceedings of the IFIP 9.4 Conference on Implementation and Evaluation of Information Systems in Developing Countries, February 1998. (Abstract)

Matthias Nicola, M.Jarke: "Communication Technologies for Health Care Information Systems in Developing Countries", Proceedings of the BITWorld '98 Conference, Delhi, February 1998.

Matthias Nicola, M.Jarke: "Integrating Replication and Communication in Database Performance Models", Technical Report AIB-97-10, RWTH Aachen. (Abstract)

R. Gallersdörfer, Matthias Nicola: "Improving Performance in Replicated Databases through Relaxed Coherency", Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Very Large Databases, pp. 445-456, September 1995. (Abstract)

Matthias Nicola: "Analytical Performance Evaluation of Relaxed Coherency in Replicated Databases", Diploma Thesis, RWTH Aachen, (in German), April 1995.

Diplomarbeiten / Diploma Theses

Performance Evaluation of Replicated Databases through Measurements (completed)
Analytical Performance Modeling of Conflict Situations in Distributed Databases (completed)
Simulation of Communication and Replication in Distributed Databases (completed)
An Adaptive Database Gateway for Wireless Information Systems (completed)

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