Edward Chan
Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. Edward Chan is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Research Interest
Professor Chan's research interests are mainly in the area of database systems. In the past, he has worked on database design, and on object-oriented and deductive databases. Recently, he has become interested in designing and building spatial and moving object database systems. The group research in the past few years is focused on finding fast algorithms for evaluating routes queries on massive graphs, as well as query processing and indexing for large spatial and moving object databases.
Publications
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E.P.F. Chan and H. Lim. Optimization and Evaluation of Shortest Path Queries. VLDB Journal, 16(3):343-369, 2007.
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E.P.F. Chan and J. Zhang. A Fast Unified Optimal Route Query Evaluation Algorithm. Proceedings of ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 07), pp. 371-380, 2007.
