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The University of Frankfurt's Database and Information
Systems group (DBIS) conducts research in the main stream
research area of advanced database systems for complex
applications with particular emphasis on object
technology, distributed object systems and object
oriented database systems. The group around Prof. Don.
Ing. R. Zicari consists of six senior researchers and a
dozen diploma students. Its current work addresses change
management in object oriented databases and distributed
information systems using CORBA technology and Internet
facilities (including Java).
The DBIS groups is currently involved in the following:
- as a partner in the Esprit Ill
project Goodstep (General Object Oriented
Database Systems for Software Processes) together
with 02 Technology (F), Engineering (1), British
Airways (UK), Cefriel (1), Uni. Dortmund (D),
Univ. Grenoble (F) and Inria (F).
- as an associate partner in the
Esprit 111 project F3, together with Sema France
(F), Sema Spain (S), TxT (1), Univ. Manchester,
Univ. Paris Sorbonne(F), BaE (UK), Rutherord
Appleton Laboratories (RAL) (UK).
- Prof. Zicari is the Editor in
Chief of the new John Wiley (New York) scientific
journal: Theory and Practice of Object Systems
(TAPOS). Prof. Zicari is a regular program
committee member of the leading international
database conferences (ACM Sigmod, VLDB, EDBT,
Data Engineering, DOOD, etc.) and of Object
Technology conferences (ECOOP, CAISE, etc.). The
Research themes covers change management, design
transactions and active databases, configuration
management, deductive properties and
client-server database architecture.
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Contribution
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University of Frankfurt's (DBIS)
contribution to OBOE will cover its strong experience and
high knowledge in the fields:
- OMG specifications
- CORBA related products
- Distributed computing applying CORBA technology
- Distributed computing applying SUN's Java
- Object technology
- Database technology.
The tasks University of Frankfurt is
involved in will benefit from this background and result
in technically sophisticated solutions conformable to
existing and evolving standards. DBIS at present puts
enormous efforts in the design and development of
distributed (database) environments based on CORBA and
networking technologies. The basic infrastructure for
business objects and the database integration of legacy
systems for OBOE therefore meet the main topics DBIS is
currently working on. OBOE will gain from both existing
knowledge and experience and the forthcoming advantage of
co-operative work with a motivated and highly trained
group of engineers at DBIS.
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| Web site |
www.dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de |
SEL, June 11, 1999
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