Isolation Testing Project
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
at Boston
The Isolation Testing Project is a research project of the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at
Boston. Our work aims to enhance performance of database applications that
use transactions by determining lesser isolation levels that still produce safe
executions. For more information, see the 200-word Project Summary or a
Postscript form of the full Isotest Proposal.
Principal Investigators
Patrick
O'Neil
Elizabeth O'Neil
Consultants
Dennis
Shasha
Alan Fekete
Funding Agency
National
Science Foundation, specifically, the IRIS Directorate
of the Computer and Infomation Division.
The grant ran
from Sept.
1, 1997 for three years, extended by one year to
August, 2001.
Denis Rinfret,
Patrick O'Neil, Elizabeth (Betty) O'Neil, "Bit-Sliced
Index Arithmetic," Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, May 2001, PDF Download
Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov,
and Patrick O'Neil, "Generalized
Isolation Level Definitions". Proceedings of the 16th International
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'00), March 2000.
Alan Fekete,
"Serialisability and Snapshot Isolation",
Proceedings of the 1999 Australian Database Conference, p. 201, 1999.
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