Excerpt from Simulating Distributed Database Operating Systems and Evaluating Concurrency Control Protocol Performance
As described in detail later, the distributed simulator has as its building block a site simulator. This single-site simulator is in effect a centralized database simulator with communication support. We have implemented a site simulator and used it as a centralized database simulator to obtain the results described in this paper. Our reasons for not simulating distributed concurrency control protocols at this point follow.
Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born November 17, 1942), FBA, FRS, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the University of Manchester. Research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; social capital; the theory of games; and the economics of malnutrition.
He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, then in India, and is the son of noted economist A.K. Dasgupta. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a psychotherapist. They have three children, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (an educational psychologist), Shamik (a philosophy professor) and Aisha (who works on reproductive health in poor countries).