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   3 Informatikk: Research and Teaching in Norway, group 7, Tromsø
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   7 <H1>Informatikk:<Br>
   8 Research and Teaching in Norway<br>
   9 A Critical Evaluation</H1>
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  11 <H4>NAVF: The Council for Natural Science Research 1992, ISBN 82-7216-813-0</H4>
  12 (c) The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities<br>
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  14 Page 36. Copied with the authorization of NAVF, Rune Dyre, by
  15 <A HREF="/~petterr">Petter Reinholdtsen</A> - petterr@stud.cs.uit.no
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  17 <H1>Open Distributed Systems (ODS)</H1>
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  21 <DT><B>Permanent scientific positions</B> <hr>
  22 <DD><UL><LI> 1 Associate Professors: Eliassen
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  24 <DT><B>Temporary scientific positions</B> <hr>
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  26 <LI>1 Assistant Professors: Karlsen
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  28 <DT><B>Students</B> <hr>
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  30 <LI>3   Doctoral students (1 is assisting professor and 1 is
  31 associated professor)
  32 <LI>11  Graduate students:
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  34 <LI>7 Cand. scient. (2 of these have principal supervisor outside
  35 the department)
  36 <LI> 4 Siv.ing. (3 of these has principal supervisor outside the department)
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  39 <DT><B>Theses last 5 years (1988-may 1992)</B> <hr>
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  41 <UL><LI>6 Cand.scient. theses and
  42 <LI>2 Siv.ing. theses<hr>
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  47 <H2>Research activity</H2>
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  49 Open distributed systems are distributed systems consisting of a
  50 number of autonomous nodes interconnected via a computer network. In
  51 general the level of abstraction is higher than in the work of
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  53 distributed operation systems (group 6)</a>. Topics listed in the program
  54 include architectures of integration systems for abstract data type
  55 based specifications, data manipulation and query optimization,
  56 transactions and schema integration. The programming system FRIL is
  57 the basic tool for establishing a federation of heterogeneous
  58 information bases. <P>
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  60 <H2>Observations</H2>
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  62 Frank Eliassen has done successful work in transaction modelling in
  63 cooperation with other Norwegian, Finnish and German
  64 researchers. Their S-transaction model has been published extensively
  65 and is quite well known. The proposed plan for research would be too
  66 extensive even for a much larger group. The group should compromise on
  67 what they can do. An area such as semantic enrichment and integration
  68 could be sufficient. To do research it is not necessary to actually
  69 build a whole heterogeneous system. <P>
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  71 <H2>Recommendations</H2>
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  73 The scientific goals should be made specific. The abstractions should
  74 not be the only research contribution. A cooperation partner would be
  75 useful. At the beginning it could be wise to have a suitably chosen
  76 visitor in the vacant position. <P>
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  79 Group 6, Distributed Operation Systems and Distributed Computations (DOS)
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