Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:44:11 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:09:10 GMT Content-length: 4612 Krithi Ramamritham (krithi@cs.umass.edu)

Prof. Krithi Ramamritham

Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Mass. 01003-4610
(413) 545-0196 (office)
(413) 545-1249 (fax)
krithi@cs.umass.edu


Prof. Ramamritham received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1981. Since then he has been with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts where he is currently a Professor. He has held visiting positions at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and was a Science and Engineering Research Council (U.K.) visiting fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

Ramamritham's interests span the areas of real-time systems, transaction processing in database systems, and real-time databases systems. In the real-time arena, he has contributed to the development of scheduling algorithms, specification and programming languages, operating system support, architectural support, and design strategies for distributed real-time applications. In database transaction processing his interests lie in supporting the needs of emerging applications, such as CAD/CAM, design, workflow systems and massive digital databases, whose data and transaction characteristics as well as correctness and performance requirements make traditional transaction processing approaches unsuitable. To this end, his work exploits semantic information about the objects, operations, transaction model, and the application. Combining aspects from real-time and active databases along with concepts and mechanisms from real-time systems, he is also developing transaction processing support for real-time applications that utilize databases.

Dr. Ramamritham has served on numerous program committees of conferences and workshops devoted to databases as well as real-time systems. He served as Program Chair for the Real-Time Systems Symposium in 1994 and as General Chair in 1995. Also, he was a vice-chair for the Conference on Data Engineering in 1995. He is an editor of the Real-Time Systems Journal and the Distributed Systems Engineering Journal. He has co-authored three IEEE tutorial texts, two on hard real-time systems and a (forthcoming) text on advances in database transaction processing. He is a consultant to AT&T Bell laboratories.

You can browse through some of Prof. Ramamritham's publications in the area of real-time systems and database systems.


During 1994-95, Prof. Ramamritham spent a year in India. Based on his visits to Indian CS institutions and laboratories, he has written a summary report as well as a detailed report on the research and development activities in India.

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