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NTNU Database Group

The database and distributed systems research group is part of the Department of computer and information science (IDI), which is the principal computer science department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The technology part of NTNU was formerly known as the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH).

These web pages provide information about the people in our group, outline our present courses and present our current research activities. In addition, you can find information regarding some of our past research projects, as well as a fairly complete overview of the publications that has been produced during the years.

SPOTLIGHT »Faculty Profile

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Professor Svein Erik Bratsberg

Svein Erik Bratsberg has been employed at NTNU since August 2001 as a professor in distributed systems.

His main research interests are within highly available and scalable distributed systems, with a special focus on databases and search engines. Currently addressed by looking on next generation search engines, where scalability and schema agnostic search are in focus. He is also working on database internals, with focus on main memory structures suitable for modern computers.

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PUBLICATIONS »5 Most Recent

Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg Exploiting Time-based Synonyms in Searching Document Archives To appear in Proceedings of JCDL'2010 June 2010
Christian Bøhn and Kjetil Nørvåg Extracting Named Entities and Synonyms from Wikipedia Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'2010) April 2010
Marek Ciglan, Etienne Rivière and Kjetil Nørvåg Learning to find interesting connections in Wikipedia Proceedings of the 12th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'2010), Busan, Korea April 2010
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis and Yannis Kotidis Peer-to-Peer Similarity Search based on M-Tree Indexing Proceedings of DASFAA'2010, Tsukuba, Japan April 2010
Marek Ciglan and Kjetil Nørvåg SGDB - Simple graph database optimized for activation spreading computation Proceedings of GDM'2010 (in conjunction with DASFAA'2010) April 2010

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