Abdullah Uz Tansel's publications:

A. Books:

Tansel, A. U., Clifford, J., Gadia, S., Jajodia, S., Segev, A., Snodgrass, R. (Editors), Temporal Databases: Theory, Design and Implementation, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Redwood City, California, March 1993, 650 pages.

B. Chapters in Books:

"A Generalized Framework for Modeling Temporal Data", in Temporal Databases: Theory, Design and Implementation (Ed. A. Tansel, et al.) , Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Redwood City, California, March 1993, 20 pages.

"Statistical Database Query Languages", in Statistical and Scientific Databases, (Ed. Zibigniew Michalewicz, Ellis Horwood Publishing Company, London, pp. 217-252, Feb. 1991.

"Role of Telecommunications, Computer Networks and Distributed Processing in Development" in Recent Developments in International Scholarship and Development Policy (Ed. M. Mtewa), to appear.

C. Articles:

Tansel A., U., Tin, E., "Expressive Power of Temporal Relational Query Languages", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Database Engineering, Vol.9, No. 1, Jan. 1997.

"Temporal Relational Data Model", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Database Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 3, May 1997, pp. 464-479.

"Query Languages for Statistical Databases", Statistics and Computation, Vol. 5, No 5, 1993, pp: 59-72.

Tansel, A.U., Garnett, "On Roth, Korth and Silberschatz's Extended Algebra and Calculus for Nested Relational Databases", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1992, pp. 374-383.

Garnett, L., Tansel, A.U., "Equivalence of the Relational Algebra and Calculus Languages for Nested Relations", Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 23, No. 10, 1992, pp. 3-25.

"Modeling Temporal Data", Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 32, No. 8, 1990, pp. 514-520.

"A Historical Query Language", Information Sciences: An International Journal, Vol. 53, No. 1, 1991, pp. 101-133.

Tansel, A.U., Arkun, M.E. and Ozsoyoglu, G., "Time-By-Example Data- base Query Language", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 15, No.4, 1989, pp. 464-478.

"Adding Time Dimension to Relational Model and Extending Relational Algebra", Information Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1986, pp. 343-355.

Tansel, A.U., Ozkarahan, E.A., "Query Execution in the Distributed RAP Database Machine System", Pure and Applied Sciences Journal, Faculty of Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Vol. 15, No. 2, Aug. 1982, pp. 125-160. (Also in the proc. of UNESCO Regional Seminars on Microprocessors/Microcomputers and Computer Networks, Middle East Technical University, Nov. 1980).

D. Conference Proceedings:

Goralwalla, I. A., Tansel, A. U., Ozsu, T., "An Experimental Performance Evalaution of Temporal Relational Databases", Proc. of the CIKM Conference, October 1995.

"SQLT: A Temporal Extension to SQL", Proceedings of the International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, January 1993.

Garnett, L., Tansel, A.U., "On the Expressive Power of Relational Algebra and Calculus Languages for Nested Structures", Proc. of the European Joint Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, June 29, 1992, Istanbul, Turkey.

Goralwalla, I.A., Tansel, A.U., "A Temporal Relational Database Management System" Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Oct. 1991, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 75-83.

Kocberber, S., Tansel, A.U., "An Index Structure for Historical Databases" Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Oct. l991, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 169-178.

Tin, E., Tansel, A.U., "On the Expressive Power of Historical Query Languages", Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Oct. 1991, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 85-94.

Al-Hajj, R., Tansel, A.U., Arkun, M.E., "Version Management in an Object-Oriented Database Management System, Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Oct. 1991, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 215-225.

Tansel, A.U., Garnett, L., "Temporal Relational Data Model", Proc. of the 5th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cappadocia, Turkey, Nov. 1990, pp. 1089-1099.

"Veri Tabaninda Zaman Boyutu", Proc. of Eighth Information Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, Sept. 1990, pp. 175-183 (in Turkish).

Tansel, A.U., Garnett, L., "Nested Historical Relations", Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 1989, Portland, Oregon, pp. 284- 293.

"A Statistical Database for Planning and Research, Proc. of 4th International Conference on Statistical and Scientific Database Management", Volume 2, June 1988, Rome Italy, pp. 221-234.

"A Statistical Interface to Historical Relational Databases", Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1987, Los Angeles, California, pp. 538-546.

Tansel, A.U., Arkun, M.E., "HQUEL, A Query Language for Historical Relational Databases", Proc. of Third International Workshop on Statistical and Scientific Databases, July 1986, Luxenburg, pp. 135-142.

Tansel, A.U., Arkun, M.E., "Aggregation Operations in Historical Relational Databases", Proc. of Third International Workshop on Statistical and Scientific Databases, July 1986, Luxenburg, pp. 116-121.

Tansel, A.U., J. Clifford "On an Algebra for Historical Relational Databases: Two Views:, Proc of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 1985, Austin, Texas, pp. 247-265.

"Handling Time in Relational Databases", Proceedings of 4th Hungarian Computer Sciences Conferences, July 1985, Gyor, Hungary, pp. 385-397.

"Issues in Distributed Data Base Design", Proc. of the Conference Universities in World Network of Information and Communications, IRCIHE Bulletin, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, May 1980, pp. 45- 50. Abstract of this paper appeared in Computing Reviews, Vol. 23, No. 4, April 1982, #39270.

Ozkarahan, E.A., Tansel, A.U. and Smith K.C., "Database Machine/Computer Based Distributed Databases", Proc. of Second International Symposium on Distributed Data Bases, West Berlin, Sept., 1982, pp. 61-80.

Tansel, A.U., Ozkarahan, E.A., "Distributed Data Bases", Information Processing Association of Turkey, Proc. of 2nd Informatics Symposium, Ankara, 1978, pp. 90-99. (in Turkish)

"Query Processing in Distributed Data Bases", Proc. of 3rd Informatics Symposium, Ankara, 1981, pp. 6-9. (in Turkish).

"METU-DDBMS-A Experimental Distributed Data Base Management System", Proc. of 4th Informatics Symposium, Oct. 1982. (in Turkish)

"Query Processing in Middle East Technical University DDB System", Proc. of 4th Informatics Symposium, 1982. (in Turkish)

"Non First Normal Form Temporal Relational Model", Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. ll, No. 4, December 1988,


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