Vassilis Papadimos

mugshot I am a graduate student in the Computer Science department at Portland State University. I am working on the Niagara project under the supervision of Prof. David Maier.

I'm currently working on Mutant Query Plans (partial evaluation of distributed query plans with a twist!). I hope to graduate in the first quarter of 2008. Here's my current CV.

Distributed Query Processing and Catalogs for Peer-to-Peer Systems describes a distributed catalog scheme for routing mutant queries in P2P networks (here are the slides from the CIDR '03 presentation.)

Distributed Queries without Distributed State is a paper that focuses on mutant query optimization issues (here are the slides from the WebDB '02 presentation.)

You can find a more extensive introduction to mutant queries in Mutant Query Plans (published in Information and Software Technology 44(4) - here's an online preprint and the slides from a presentation at the Objects, XML, and Databases workshop at OOPSLA '01.)

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Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins, The Story of Little Red Riding Hood