Data Management Research at Technische Universitat Darmstadt A. Buchmann and M. Cilia   View Paper (PDF)   Return to December 2005, Volume 34, Number 4 Abstract The Databases and Distributed Systems Group at Technische Universität Darmstadt is devoted to research in the areas of data management middleware and reactive, event-based systems. Special emphasis is placed on handling the flow of data and events in a variety of environments: publish/subscribe mechanisms, information dissemination and integration, ubiquitous computing, peer-to-peer infrastructures, and a variety of sensor-based systems ranging from passive RFID infrastructures to active wireless sensor networks. A special concern is placed on non-functional aspects of the middleware, such as performance, scalability and security, where members of our group are involved in the definition of the SPEC family of benchmarks for J2EE (SPECjAppServer200x) and JMS. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery