Graphs are not new in database community – we have long used them to model and reason about database operations and some of our earliest systems were built on graph models. 

There has been a renewed in the last decade interest in using graphs model real-life phenomena in many domains. Recent studies suggest that there is interest among the user community in using graphs to model applications and data that have traditionally been considered the domain of relational systems. Despite intense research and development efforts in graph processing, these efforts are fragmented, and general purpose, scalable solutions are not yet available.

In this talk, I will provide a systematic look at the field and highlight some of the open research issues.

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M. Tamer Özsu是加拿大滑铁卢大学计算机系教授，滑铁卢大学的“学校教授”（University Professor），2014年至2016年间曾担任滑铁卢大学数学学院副院长。由于其在分布式和并行数据库系统中的卓越学术贡献，他当选为加拿大皇家学会的会士(Fellow)、美国科学促进会(AAAS)的会士(Fellow)、国际计算机学会(ACM)的会士(Fellow)、国际电气电子工程师协会(IEEE)的会士(Fellow)。他曾经是多个顶级国际数据库期刊(例如 VLDB Journal)的主编。在2001年-2005年，他是ACM数据库领域专业委员会(ACM SIGMOD)的主席。他所编写的教材《分布式数据库系统原理(Principles of Distributed Database System)》是分布式数据领域的经典教材，第三版于2011年出版。该书的第二版中文版由清华出版社2002年出版。

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