Move away from any narrow interpretation of databases
Interestes, Projects, and Publications
His research interests are in the wide area of information management and include design and use of database systems, transaction management, low-level implementation issues, such as indexing, clustering, and data structures, query processing and optimization, semantic caching, performance tuning, and management of distributed heterogeneous information resources. He also worked in the areas of software engineering, application design, and transaction management in distributed mobile systems.
Grants and Awards
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Information management techniques for distributed semistructured information resources
This umbrella project is supported by Russian Foundation for Basec Research under grant No. 10-07-00156 (2010-2012).
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Multi-Stream Topic Detection and Tracking
The project is undertaken in cooperation with The Information Retrieval Group at the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano and supported by Scientific & Technological Cooperation Programme Switzerland-Russia for 2010
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Authorship Attribution Framework
This project is supported by Google Research Awards program for 2010-2011.
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Approximate query evaluation techniques for open distributed environments
the goal is to develop a framework and algorithms for complex query evaluation for open heterugeneous distributed environment.
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Performance modelling distributed architectures for analytical processing
Boilding a simulation model for different hardware and software architectures for performance analysis of analitical query processing.
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Discovery of long-term query processing patterns in high-end data storage systems.
The goal is to develop techniques for detection of long-term access patterns in order to optimize data placement in a distributed storage systems with heterogeneous storage.
More Publications and Projects
A list of recent publications, research areas, and projects can be extracted from the site of the informal Information Management (formely Database) Research Group. The IM group consists mostly of students and former students involved in research under supervision of B. Novikov.
Additional information can be found on the official pages of
However, some of these pages are not up-to-date.Bio
Boris A. Novikov graduated from the Leningrad University in 1972 as a Dipl. Math. (dept. of algebra and number theory), received a PhD in Comp.Sci. from the same university in 1981, and Dr. Sci. degree in 1994.
He joined the university's Operations Research lab. in 1972 and he is currently a professor at the department of computer science, St.-Petersburg university, Russia (actually the same university). He also leads the Operations Research laboratory and information management research group, and occasionally works as a database expert for the industry.
B. Novikov is a member of the ACM, SIGMOD, and Moscow chapter of ACM SIGMOD.
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