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Richard T. Snodgrass

Richard T. Snodgrass

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Computer Science

D-Index
74
Citations
21640
World Ranking
1496
National Ranking
780

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award "For exceptional leadership in broadening the vision of the ACM Digital Library into a portal to computer science literature, and for service as an outstanding leader of the ACM SIGMOD community, of the Publications Board, and of the SIG Board."
  • 1999 - ACM Fellow For originating , providing leadership to, and for fundamental contributions to the research area of temporal databases, and for outstanding, wide-ranging service to the database community.

Overview

Richard T. Snodgrass is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in computer science. Their research covers various subfields including computer networks and communications, signal processing, information systems, astronomy and astrophysics, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as data management and algorithms, advanced database systems and queries, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astronomical observations and instrumentation, astronomy and astrophysical research, data mining algorithms and applications, and cloud computing and resource management.

Richard T. Snodgrass has published papers in a range of scholarly journals. Some recent publications include:

  • The ANTARES Astronomical Time-domain Event Broker, 2021, The Astronomical Journal
  • Have query optimizers hit the wall?, 2021, The VLDB Journal
  • Identifying the Root Causes of DBMS Suboptimality, 2024, ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • We need to automate the declaration of conflicts of interest, 2020, Communications of the ACM
  • Partitioned storage for temporal databases, 2021, UNC Libraries

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Sabah Currim, Young-Kyoon Suh, T. Matheson, C. Stubens, and N. Wolf, with multiple joint publications.

Richard T. Snodgrass has published in a variety of venues, regularly contributing to:

  • The Astronomical Journal
  • The VLDB Journal
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • Communications of the ACM
  • UNC Libraries

Among formal recognitions, they have received the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award in 2004 for leadership in expanding the ACM Digital Library and for service to the ACM SIGMOD community, Publications Board, and SIG Board.

Additionally, Richard T. Snodgrass was named an ACM Fellow in 1999 for their foundational contributions to temporal databases and their extensive service to the database research community.

Best Publications

  • Temporal Databases: Theory, Design, and Implementation

    Abdullah Uz Tansel;James Clifford;Shashi Gadia;Sushil Jajodia

  • The temporal query language TQuel

    Richard Snodgrass

  • The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language

    Richard Thomas Snodgrass

  • A consensus glossary of temporal database concepts

    Curtis Dyreson;Fabio Grandi;Wolfgang Käfer;Nick Kline

  • Temporal and real-time databases: a survey

    G. Ozsoyoglu;R.T. Snodgrass

  • A taxonomy of time databases

    Richard Snodgrass;Ilsoo Ahn

  • Temporal Databases

    Richard Snodgrass;Ilsoo Ahn

  • Developing time-oriented database applications in SQL

    Richard Thomas Snodgrass

  • The consensus glossary of temporal database concepts — February 1998 version

    Christian S. Jensen;Curtis E. Dyreson;Michael Böhlen;James Clifford

  • Advanced Database Systems

    Carlo Zaniolo;Stefano Ceri;Christos Faloutsos;Richard Thomas Snodgrass

  • Temporal data management

    C.S. Jensen;R.T. Snodgrass

  • Web Services Business Process Execution Language

    Unknown

  • Web Data Mining

    Unknown

  • TSQL2 language specification

    Richard Thomas Snodgrass;Ilsoo Ahn;Gadi Ariav;Don Batory

  • Temporal Databases

    Richard Snodgrass;Christian Jensen

  • Evaluation of relational algebras incorporating the time dimension in databases

    L. Edwin McKenzie;Richard Thomas Snodgrass

  • A Taxonomy of Time in Databases.

    Richard T. Snodgrass;Ilsoo Ahn

  • A Glossary of Time Granularity Concepts

    Claudio Bettini;Curtis E. Dyreson;William S. Evans;Richard T. Snodgrass

  • A relational approach to monitoring complex systems

    Richard Snodgrass

  • On the semantics of “now” in databases

    James Clifford;Curtis Dyreson;Tomás Isakowitz;Christian S. Jensen

  • A taxonomy of time in databases

    Richard Snodgrass;Ilsoo Ahn

  • Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

    Peter M. G. Apers;Paolo Atzeni;Stefano Ceri;Stefano Paraboschi

  • The temporal query language TQuel

    Richard Snodgrass

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian S. Jensen
Christian S. Jensen Aalborg University
John F. Roddick
John F. Roddick Flinders University
Arie Segev
Arie Segev University of California, Berkeley
Stefano Ceri
Stefano Ceri Polytechnic University of Milan
Saumya K. Debray
Saumya K. Debray University of Arizona
Ramez Elmasri
Ramez Elmasri The University of Texas at Arlington
Thomas Matheson
Thomas Matheson National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab
Sudha Ram
Sudha Ram University of Arizona
Barbara Pernici
Barbara Pernici Polytechnic University of Milan
Sushil Jajodia
Sushil Jajodia George Mason University

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