Guido Moerkotte
{{Short description|German computer scientist}}
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| field = Computer Science
| work_institutions = University of Mannheim
University of Aachen
| alma_mater = Universität Karlsruhe
| doctoral_advisor = Peter Lockemann
| thesis_title = Inkonsistenzen in deduktiven Datenbanken: Diagnose und Reparatur {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DvvBgAAQBAJ&q=lockemann | title=Ein universelles Konzept zum flexiblen Informationsschutz in und mit Rechensystemen | isbn=9783642842788 | access-date=2023-08-29 | last1=Moerkotte | first1=Guido | date=7 March 2013 | publisher=Springer }}
| thesis_year = 1990
| doctoral_students = Thomas Neumann
| known_for = Query Optimization
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Guido Moerkotte is full professor of computer science at the University of Mannheim and known for his research on query optimization within database systems.{{cite web| url=https://research.com/u/guido-moerkotte | title=research.com | access-date=2023-08-31}}
Life
Moerkotte started studying computer science at the University of Dortmund in 1981{{cite web| url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guido-Moerkotte | title=ResearchGate | access-date=2023-08-31}} and finished his doctoral studies under the supervision of Peter Lockemann at the Universität Karlsruhe in 1990. After positions as guest researcher at IBM and visiting researcher at Microsoft,{{cite web| url=https://www.xing.com/profile/Guido_Moerkotte | title=Xing | access-date=2023-08-29}} he joined the University of Aachen as associate professor in January 1994.
Since January 1996, he holds the chair of Practical Computer Science III as a full professor at the University of Mannheim.{{cite web| url=https://www.vldb.org/journal/VLDBJ6/70060191.pdf | title=Heuristic and randomized optimization for the join ordering problem | access-date=2023-08-29}}
Research
With more than 200 publications including three books, Moerkotte's research focuses on database systems, especially query optimization. In his early years, he conducted research on deductive databases and together with Alfons Kemper he worked on object-oriented databases when he was employed in Karlsruhe.{{cite book|author = Alfons Kemper, Christoph Kilger, Guido Moerkotte |title=ACM SIGMOD Record |chapter=Function materialization in object bases |date=1991|pages=258-267 |doi = 10.1145/119995.115833|language=English}}
Nowadays he is giving courses on query optimization{{cite web| url=https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/moerkotte/teaching/ | title=Teaching | access-date=2023-08-31}} and working on query compilers.{{cite web| url=https://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~moer/querycompiler.pdf | title=Building Query Compilers | access-date=2023-08-31}}
Books
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External links
- [https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/moerkotte/team/prof-dr-guido-moerkotte/ Homepage of Guido Moerkotte]
- [https://dblp.org/pid/m/GuidoMoerkotte.html dblp]
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