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Antoni Wolski

Ph.D. (Computer Science)
 
A. WOLSKI
   
 

Affiliation

Chief Researcher, solidDB
IBM Software Group
Information Management Software
IBM Helsinki Lab

P.O. Box 265
00101 Helsinki, Finland

Tel. +358 40 846 9840
Email: a.wolski

Research profile 

My primary field of activity is data management software. Special interests include data replication in cluster and multi-tier database systems, highly available database systems, temporal databases and database performance measurement.

Selected activities

  • Paper on performance management and tuning of highly-available databases [WolRaa06], at the ISAS 2006 Conference, May 15-16, 2006, Helsinki.

  • Paper on applying a highly available database to an industrial telecom framework [WolHof05], at the Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB2005), April 8-9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

  • Paper on dynamic upgrades [Wol04], at the ISAS 2004 Conference, May 13-14, 2004, Munich, Germany.

  • Work within the Service Availability Forum (SAF) resulting in the survey of the highly available databases [SAF03].

  • ICDE 2002 Advanced Technology Seminar:
    • Database replication for the mobile era
    Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002, 4:00 - 5:30 PM 
    International Conference on Data Engineering 
    Feb. 26 - March 1, 2002 , San Jose, California 
     
  • Popular article on data recharging and replication [Wol02] in Storage Management Solutions, Vol. 7, Issue 2 (July 2002).

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  • Paper on data recharging [Wol01], at the Real-Time & Embedded
    • Computing Conference (RTEC'01), Milan, Italy, 
    November 26 - 29, 2001.

Past projects 

I joined Solid Information Technology in 2001 (Solid was acquired by IBM in 2008). Before that, I was involved, over years, in  researching and building special-purpose database systems. Research into active databases produced the technology of fuzzy triggers [WB98, PW00] and a model extraction method to generate fuzzy models to be run by fuzzy triggers [KW01]. An adaptation of temporal data models to the needs of time series processing resulted in the design of RapidBase, an active, in-memory system for time series management [WKLP00]. Back, in the beginning of 90's, we studied recovery problems in heterogeneous transaction processing  system, and produced  the 2PC Agent Method [WV91, VW92] that was subsequently implemented in the HERMES system [PWVJ93]. Earlier study into database access in heterogeneous environments led to the construction of the LINDA system [Wol89].

Other activities 

Data mangement issues in telecommunications has been always one of my interests [Wol94]. In this area, I got myself involved in consulting work for telecom equipment manufacturers and operators. Another area of interest are interorganizational work flows that spun some work, too [SW96]. And besides all, I like teaching, and do it occasionally. Popular-science writing about information technology has been another hobby that produced two co-authored books and numerous articles. 

Publications 

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