Database Research Resources

Web Sites

• ACM SIGMOD, an association of database researchers.
• ACM Digital Library, which offers ACM proceedings and journals electronically, though not for free.
• DBLP, a rather complete bibilograph website for research of database and logic programming.
• CiteSeer, a useful article searcher, and one can get the articles  in its document repository for free.

• SIGMOD Proceedings
• PODS Proceedings
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems
• VLDB Journals and Proceedings
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• International Conference on Data Engineering
• KDD Proceedings
• SIGKDD Explorations

• Jeffrey D. Ullman: Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems, Volume I, II. Computer Science Press 1988 1989
• C. J. Date: Introduction To Database Systems, Volume I, 7th Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1999
• Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan: Database System Concepts, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company 1997
• Michael Stonebraker, Joseph M. Hellerstein (Eds.): Readings in Database Systems, Third Edition. Morgan Kaufmann 1998

 

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