- Serge Abiteboul
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name = Serge Abiteboul
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citizenship = French
nationality = French
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field =Computer Science
work_institution = INRIA
alma_mater =University of Southern California
doctoral_advisor =Seymour Ginsburg
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known_for = Abiteboul-Vianu Theorem
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prizes = ACMSIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1998)
nowrap|ACMSIGMOD Test of Time Award 2004
nowrap|Prix d'informatique de l'Académie des Sciences (Prix EADS) 2007
nowrap|ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award 2008ISI highly cited researcher
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footnotes =Serge Joseph Abiteboul is a
computer scientist working in the areas ofdata management ,database theory , andfinite model theory .He received his PhD from the
University of Southern California under the supervision ofSeymour Ginsburg , in 1982.He is currently a senior researcher at theInstitut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), the French national research institute focussing oncomputer science and related areas.He is well known for his contributions in the areas of finite model theory, database theory, and database systems. In finite model theory, the Abiteboul-Vianu Theorem states that
polynomial time is equal toPSPACE if and only if fixed point logic is the same as partial fixed point logic [Serge Abiteboul,Victor Vianu : Generic Computation and Its Complexity STOC 1991: 209-219] [Serge Abiteboul,Victor Vianu : Computing with First-Order Logic. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 50(2): 309-335 (1995)] . In database theory, he has contributed a wide variety of results, the most recent on languages for the distributed processing of XML data. In data management, he is best known for his early work on semistructured and Web databases. In 2008, according toCiteseer , he is the most highly cited researcher in the data management area who works at a European institution. He is also known for two influential books, one on database theory [Serge Abiteboul,Richard B. Hull ,Victor Vianu : Foundations of Databases. Addison-Wesley, 1995.] and one on Web data management [Serge Abiteboul,Peter Buneman ,Dan Suciu : Data on the Web : From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML. Morgan Kaufmann 1999] .Footnotes
References
Serge Abiteboul's homepage: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~abitebou/
Interview with Serge Abiteboul in SIGMOD Record 37(1), March 2008: http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0803/p25.profiles-abiteboul.pdf
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