Format
A paper review should summarize concisely (in a few paragraphs) the problem adddressed and the main contributions of the paper. It should also identify the limitations of the paper if any. Please feel free to include discussion questions (perhaps on something that you found confusing about the strategies or assumptions of the paper).Submission
Please email paper reviews to cs645-reviews [at] cs [dot] umass [dot] edu by midnight before each class. Send reviews in the body of the message. Do not send them as attachments. Again, late submissions will only be accepted under limited conditions.
Paper 1 (due Feb. 5)
E.F. Codd, A relational model of data for large shared data banks, Communications of the ACM, v.13 n.6, p.377-387, June 1970
Paper 2 (due Feb. 26)
Jeffrey D. Ullman. Information integration using logical views. In Proc. of the 6th Int. Conf. on Database Theory (ICDT-97), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 19--40. Springer-Verlag, 1997
Paper 3 (due March 27)
Patricia G. Selinger, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A. Lorie, and Thomas G. Price. "Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System". Proc. of SIGMOD, 1979, 23-34.