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Overview

Tom Nadeau recently completed his Ph.D. within the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Michigan. Tom is interested in databases, data warehousing, OLAP and data mining. His advisor for the Ph.D. program was Toby J. Teorey, Ph.D. Tom is the founder of Aladdin Software.

Dissertation Topic: An Integrated Approach to OLAP Optimization

The goal of on-line analytical processing (OLAP) is to quickly answer queries from large amounts of data residing in a data warehouse. The recent literature in the area of improving OLAP response time has focused on materialized views as the means of achieving this goal. This problem of improving OLAP response time can be divided into four smaller sub-problems: View size estimation, selection of views to materialize, maintenance of materialized views, and query optimization with materialized views. Our goal is to contribute research to each of these areas, and integrate our work into a new cohesive OLAP system.

Research Papers

T.P. Nadeau, T.J. Teorey. "Paged Bin-Tree: An Efficient Multidimensional Index Structure". In preparation.
T.P. Nadeau, T.J. Teorey. "OLAP Query Optimization in the Presence of Materialized Views" (pdf). To appear in the Proceedings of HICCS 2004.
T.P. Nadeau, K.A. Sullivan, T.J. Teorey, E.L. Feldman. "Applying Database Technology to Clinical and Basic Research Bioinformatics Projects". Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (JIN).
T. P. Nadeau, T. J. Teorey. "A Pareto Model for OLAP View Size Estimation". Information System Frontiers 5:2, 137-147, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2003.
T. P. Nadeau, T. J. Teorey. "Achieving Scalability in OLAP Materialized View Selection" (pdf). In Proc. of DOLAP 2002, McLean, VA, Nov. 8, 2002, pp. 28-34. Technical Report: "Achieving Scalability in OLAP Materialized View Selection (Extended Version)" (pdf).
T. P. Nadeau, T. J. Teorey. "A Pareto Model for OLAP View Size Estimation" (pdf). In Proc. CASCON 2001, Toronto, Nov. 5-7, 2001, pp. 1-13. Selected best paper for CASCON 2001 Conference.
K. Runapongsa, T. P. Nadeau, T. J. Teorey. "Storage Estimation for Multidimensional Aggregates in OLAP" (pdf). In Proc. CASCON 1999, Toronto, Nov. 8-11, 1999, pp. 40-54

Coursework

Sites to See

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Samoa is about as far from Michigan as you can get. For two years Samoa was my home. I taught Math in a secondary school there. Take a visit, it will warm your heart.

To send E-Mail: nadeau@aladdinsoftware.com