Michael Lawrence


I am a PhD student in the Data Management and Mining Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. I am supervised by Rachel Pottinger. My thesis work is on the application of data coordination: where two autonomous, heterogeneous data sources are related so that the contents of one source (B) depend on the contents of another (A). An example is the cost estimate (B) and architectural design (A) in a large building project. The nature of these relationships (e.g., involving aggregation) is such that traditional formalisms for coordination, such as event-condition-action rules (or triggers), are awkward or unsuitable. We propose an approach using declarative mappings, and study the problems which arise in implementing this approach efficiently and for a broad variety of real world coordination scenarios.

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