Dr. Ian J. Davis

41 High Street
Waterloo,
Ontario.
N2L 3X7

Research Associate
Software Architecture Research Group
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
CANADA

Former Research Associate and Lab Manager
Database Research Group

Phone (Home) +1 (519) 884-1629
Phone (Cell) +1 (519) 574-3648

Profile

Born 1953, emigrated to Canada 1976 from London (England), married with two children born 1982 and 1984.

B.Sc (1974) degree in Computer Science with Mathematics from Royal Holloway College, London University (U.K)
M.Sc. (1982) degree in Computer Science from University of Toronto (Supervisor: R. Holt)
Ph.D (1988) from University of Waterloo (Supervisor: D. Taylor)

Ian Davis, Michael Godfrey, Ric Holt, Serge Mankovskii, Nick Minchenko
Analyzing Assembler To Eliminate Dead Functions: An Industrial Experience
16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR)
March 27-30, 2012 Szeged, Hungary

Olga Baysal, Ian Davis, Michael Godfrey
A Tale of Two Browsers
8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
May 21-22, 2011, Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, USA

Ian Davis, Michael Godfrey
From Whence It Came: Detecting Source Code Clones by Analyzing Assembler
17th Working Conf. on Reverse Engineering
13-17 October 2010, Boston, USA

Ian Davis, Michael Godfrey
Clone detection by exploiting assembler (Position Paper)
International Workshop on Software Cloning IWSC 2010
Co-located with ISCE 2010 Cape Town, South Africa
Supporting Powerpoint Presentation May 8, 2010

Sarah Nadi, Ric Holt, Ian Davis, Serge Mankovskii
DRACA: Decision Support for Root Cause Analysis and Change Impact Analysis for CMDB's.
Best Paper, Cascon 2009. November 2-5, 2009

N. Syntskyy, R.C. Holt, I. Davis
Browsing software architectures with LSEdit
Proceedings IWPC 2005. 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension.
15-15 May 2005. Pages 176-178.

I.J. Davis
Integrating XPath with SQL
Presented to XML 2002 Conference - Baltimore
Submitted to: International Journal of Computer, Science and Engineering
February 25th, 2003
Ian Davis, Tim Snider, David Toman and Grant Weddell
Query Processing for Embedded Control applications
Proc. Databases in Telecommunications, 2001
L.J.Brown, M.P.Consens, I.J.Davis, C.R.Palmer, and F.W.Tompa,
A Structured Text ADT for Object-Relational Databases
Theory and Practice of Object Systems, accepted February 1998, 29 pp.
G.E.Blake, M.P.Consens, I.J.Davis, P.Kilpeläinen, P.-A.Larson, E. Kuikka, T.Snider, and F.W.Tompa
``Text / Relational Database Management Systems: Overview and Proposed SQL Extensions,''
Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
Technical Report CS-95-25,
June 1995, 28 pp.

I. J. Davis
Adding Structured Text to SQL/MM Part 2: Full Text
Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
SQL/MM Change Proposal LHR-24, CAC WG3 N334R2,
February 12, 1996, 42 pp.

I. J. Davis
``A Fast Radix Sort''
The Computer Journal Volume 35, No 6, pp 636-642 (pdf)
1992
I. J. Davis and D. J. Taylor
Local Correction of Mod(k) Lists
Journal of Systems and Software
(May 1990)
I. Davis
Local Correction of Helix(k) Lists
IEEE Transactions on Computers
(May 1989)
I. J. Davis
Error Correction in Robust Storage Structures
Ph.D. Thesis
1988.
I. J. Davis
A locally correctable AVL Tree
Fault Tolerant Computing Symposium 17
1987
I. J. Davis
The MSQ Database System
Honeywell Bulletin
August 1987
I. J. Davis
The MSQ Database System
HLUSA Conference Phoenix
1986
Towards Reliable File Systems
M.Sc. Thesis
1982