P.Krishna Reddy, Ph.D, Professor
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)
Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Pin: 500032, INDIA

Phone: 91-40-23001967/9 Ext: 322; Fax: 91-40-23001413
E-mail: pkreddyETiiitDOTacDOTin; URL: http://www.iiit.ac.in/~pkreddy

Here is my resume[PDF]

• eSagu system was awarded diploma for excellence in the use of information technology in the economic development category by Stockholm Challenge 2008.

 
• The eSagu system is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008 in the economic development category.

 
• Awarded the title "The Fellows of Manthan Award: The e-Content Pathbreakers" in the year 2007 by Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi.

 
• The eSagu project is the winner of "The Manthan Award 2007 - India's Best e-Content for Development".

 
• The e-Sagu project has won the best CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Project Award (overall winner) 2005-06 [URL].

 
• A research paper entitled "A Concise Labeling Scheme for XML Data" [PDF] written by Risi Vardhan has been selected for best paper award at 13th International Conference on Management of Data COMAD 2006, December 14-16, 2006. This paper is based on the research work carried out with me while he was at IIIT, Hyderabad (India). The corresponding paper title is "A New Numbering Scheme to Index XML data items" [PDF].

 
• Research paper entitled "An Approach to Build a Cyber-Community Hierarchy" has been recognized as on of the important paper in "Web Graph Sociology" area. For a reference, visit [http://farrall.org/webgraph/bibliography/index.html].

 
• The eSagu (An IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System) system has been listed as one of the top three e-Governance projects (the other two are BHOOMI and SAMPARK) of India in the video film on "Next eGoverannce Plan (NeGp)", November 2005 [MPEG].

 
• The eSagu (An IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System) system has been recognized a one of the world wide latest novel internet application by a not-for-profit Think Tank for Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taipai (Behalf of Institute of Information Industry, Taiwan) [PDF].

• Project Title: Interim Project on eSagu; Duration: Three months (August 2006 - October2006); Amount: 17.40 lakhs; Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia Role: Chief-investigator

 
• Project Title: Building a Cost-effective and Personalized eSagu; Duration: One year (August 2005 - July 2006); Amount: 145.84 lakhs; Funding Agency: Media Lab Asia Role: Chief-investigator

 
• Project Title: Web-based Agricultural Information Dissemination System; Duration: One year (April 2004- July 2005); Amount: 62.11 lakhs; Funding Agency: Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, New Delhi; Role: Chief Investigator

Mainly, I have  been working  in the areas of database systems, Web mining and  ICTs (information and communication technologies) for agricultural  development. In database systems, I  proposed improved  algorithms to synchronize transactions in distributed and replicated databases. I also worked on speculative locking protocol to improve the performance of database systems  by  trading  extra processing resources. In Web mining, I am making efforts to improve the  performance of search engines by extracting community knowledge from the World Wide  Web using graph theoretic approaches. Regarding ICTs for agricultural development, I am  making efforts to develop agricultural information dissemination system to  improve the productivity of the Indian farming community by disseminating  personalized  expert advice and advanced information about pest attacks. (click here)

Database systems, transaction management, distributed computing systems, simulation,  performance evaluation, internet data management, data mining, web mining, recommendation systems, and ICTs for agricultural (rural) development. 

Received the MTech (Computer Science) and PhD degrees from the School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. I completed B.E in electronics engineering from the SSGMCE (Shegaon) in 1988. I completed  the Intermediate (10+2) education  in MPJC College, Warangal, in 1983. My high school education is completed in Zilla Parishad Secondary School (ZPSS), Malkapur in 1981. I am from Malkapur village, Ghanpur (station) Mandal, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. My father is a farmer.

In this institute, I am working as a professor since January 2007. Before joining  this institute in 2002 as an associate professor,   I was a post-doctoral researcher and then research associate at the Center for Conceptual Information Processing Research, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, from 1997 to 2002.    I worked as an assistant professor    at the Department of Computer    Science,  Philadelphia University, Jordan, from 1996 to 1997.  I was on the faculty at the Division of Computer  Engineering, Netaji Subhas (formerly Delhi) Institute of Technology, Delhi, from 1994 to 1996.

During M.Tech and Ph.D, I was  supported by  University Grants Commission (UGC) (supported by Government of India).    I visited University of Tokyo for postdoctoral research for two years as a JSPS fellow awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. I also visited Institute for Software Research International, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891, USA, as a visiting researcher  during the summer of 2003.

I served as a program committee member and refereed papers for several international conferences and workshops. I also refereed papers for the IEEE TKDE  journal, VLDB journal and IEICE Transactions (Japan). I delivered  a lead invited talk  at 27th Convention of Indian Agricultural Universities Association, December 9-11, 2002, Acharya N.G Ranga Agricultural University,  Hyderabad,India (Topic: Harnessing developments in information Technology for agriculture and rural development).  I also delivered  research talks on speculative locking, data replication, web commmunity mining, and agricultural information systems at universities and research institutions in abroad and India. I am a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and Computer Society of India.

Working as an Expert in "ICT in Agriculture" (Advisory) for the "Design of Mission Mode Project in Agriculture" to Wipro Consultancy Services.  Duration: 1 year (2006-07).  Key activities: providing agriculture domain specific inputs to the team and giving overall guidance to the team.

The following are the on-going research projects:

• Agricultural Projects
  1. e-Sagu: An IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System
        ( http://agriculture.iiit.ac.in/esagu/ or   http://www.esagu.in/esagu)
     Under this project, we are making efforts to build an IT-based personalized agriculture extension system to provide personalized agriculture expert advice to the Indian farming community.
  2. Pest Prediction Systems
     In this project we make an effort to understand pest population dynamics and build pest prediction systems by applying data mining techniques on pest surveillance data set of Helicoverpa Armegira, Bacterial Leaf Blight, Groundnut leaf miner regarding Chickpea, Pegionpea, Cotton, Groundnut, and Rice crops. This project is carried out in collaboration with ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad (India) and CRIDA, Hyderabad (India).
• Other Projects
  1. Point-to-Point Bus Transport System
     Trends in wireless technology have resulted in most of the commuters owning cell phones. By providing timely bus route and arrival information to these cell phones, it is possible to improve the bus occupancy. We have taken an initiative in this direction by building an automated bus information system for Hyderabad (India)city, which gives optimal paths given source and destination information.
  2. Indian Movie Recommendation System
     In this project we are making effort to design the recommendation system to meet the requirements of Indian movie scenario.

Database systems, Distributed database systems, Computer architecture, Information systems, Structured systems analysis and design, Object oriented systems analysis and design, Operating systems,  Web mining, Performance evaluation of Computer Systems.

• Operating Systems
• Database Management Systems
• Web Data and Knowledge Management
• Performance Evaluation Concepts
• Advanced Database Management Systems
• Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems

• 1. Delivered an independence day speech as a chief guest on the occasion of 60th Independence day (15 August 2007) at Sri Chaitanya Educational Academy, Nizampet, Kukatpalli, Hyderabad.

• G.Shyamasundar Reddy and P.Krishna Reddy, Efficient Implementation of Agri-insurance Schemes by Piggybacking eSagu System, in the book "Agricultural Risks Management: Challenges and Strategies", ICFAI Press, 2007, pp. 212-236.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and GV Ramaraju, eSagu: The next generation IT-based, Query-less, Cost-effective and Personalized Agro-advisory System, Chapter 3 in the book "e-Governance Case Studies", edited by Ashok Agarwal, Universities Press (India) Private Limited, 2007, pp 70-75.

• B.V.Ratnam, P.Krishna Reddy, and G.S.Reddy, eSagu: An IT based personalized agricultural extension system prototype--analysis of 51 Farmers' case studies, International Journal of Education and Development using ICT (IJEDICT), Vol.2, No.1(2006)[PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, Futuristic Farming - eSagu, Future Byte, Express Computer Exclusive, Indian Express Group, January 2006, pp. 38-39.[PDF]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, e-BusGuide: An IT-based Approach to Improve the Profitability of Bus Transportation Systems in India, IETE Technical Review, Vol. 22, No. 5, September-October 2005, pp. 351-355. [PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and R.Ankaiah, A framework of information technology-based agriculture information dissemination system to improve crop productivity, Current Science, vol. 88, Num.12 pp. 1905-1913, June 2005.[PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Speculative locking protocols to improve performance for distributed database systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, September/October 2003, vol. 15. no.5. [LINK]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Reducing the blocking in two-phase commit with backup sites, Information Processing Letters, Volume 86, Issue 1,  April 2003, Pages 39-47. [PDF]  [Abstract]

• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, Asynchronous operations in distributed concurrency control, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(3): 721-733 (2003). [LINK]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, A Nonblocking Transaction Data Flow Graph Based Protocol for Replicated Databases, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol.7, no. 5, pp.829-834, October 1995. [LINK]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, "Deadlock Prevention in Distributed Database Systems", ACM SIGMOD RECORD, ACM press, Vol.22, No.3, pp.40-46, September 1993.[LINK]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, "A Nonblocking Transaction Data Flow Graph Based Approach for Replicated Data", ACM Operating Systems Review, ACM press, Vol.27,No.3, pp.46-54, July 1993.[LINK]  [Abstract]

• Introduction to eSagu project in Telugu (30 minutes)[MPEG].

 
• Introduction to eSagu project in English (30 minutes)[MPEG].

 
• Coverage of eSagu project in Doordarshan news (in Engish)[MPEG].

 
• Coverage of eSagu project in AajTak news (in Hindi)[MPEG].

 
• Coverage of eSagu project in eTV2 (in Telugu)[MPEG].

 
• Coverage of eSagu project inaugaration in Saptagiri (in Telugu)[MPEG].

• P.Krishna Reddy, An Interview on the topic "IT into Indian Agriculture", Chartered Financial Analyst (Magazine), ICFAI University Press, pp.22-23, Vol. XII, Issue-07, July 2006.[PDF]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, Message from Chief Investigator (eSagu project), A two page message written for the book entitled "Cotton Pests and IPM: A Pictorial Guide", prepared by eSagu team and printed at IIIT, Hyderabad, 2005.

 
• R.Haragovinda Rao and P.Krishna Reddy, Agricultural Revolution, e-Sagu (in Telugu), Cover story of SUNDAY VAARTHA magazine, 1 May 2005, pp. 14-18.[PDF]

• Chief-editor of the book entitled "Cotton Pests and IPM: A Pictorial Guide" prepared by eSagu team and printed at IIIT, Hyderabad, 2005.

• P.Krishna Reddy, A.Sudarshan Reddy, B.Venkateswar Rao, G. Shyamasundar Reddy, eSagu: Web-based Agricultural Expert Adivice Dissemination System (2004-05), Final Completion Report of Research Project, Submitted to Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, 2005.[PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, G.Shyamasundar Reddy, and B.V Ratnam (editors), Proceedings of National Workshop on IT-based Personalized Agricultural Extension System (IT-PAES2005), 6 May 2005, Hyderabad, India.[PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• eSagu: an IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System, Pamphlet, March 2007 [PDF].

• T.Ragunathan and P. Krishna Reddy, Improving the Performance of Read-only Transactions Through Asynchronous Speculation, High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium (HPCS 2008) held with Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (SpringSim'08), Published by ACM Press, Ottawa, April 14-16, 2008.

 
• T.Ragunathan and P. Krishna Reddy (Role: advisor), Extending Speculation for Improving the Performance of Read-only Transactions, EDBT PhD Workshop (held with 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology March 25-29 2008, Nantes, France), Nantes, France, March 25, 2008.

 
• A.Sudarshan Reddy, B.Venkateshwar Rao and P.Krishna Reddy, Issues in Indian Agriculture in the Sustainable Development Perspective, International Conference on Issues in Public Policy and Sustainable Development, 16-28, March 2008, organized by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

 
• R.Uday Kiran and P. Krishna Reddy, Understanding the Dynamics of Crop Problems by Analyzing Farm Advisory Data in eSaguTM, 5th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS2007), The University of Aizu, JAPAN, October 17-19, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4777, pp.272-284, Springer-Verlag, 2007.

 
• T.Ragunathan and P. Krishna Reddy, Improving the performance of read-only transactions through speculation, 5th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS2007), The University of Aizu, JAPAN, October 17-19, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4777, pp. 203-227, Springer-Verlag, 2007.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, G.Shyamasundar Reddy and GV Ramaraju, Improving the Performance of Loan Recovery and Financial Inclusion for Rural Financial Services with eSaguTM, "Seminar on Rural eEmpowerment" organized by Regional Training College, NABARD, Mangalore, India, October 11-12,2007 [PDF]  [Abstract].

 
• P. Krishna Reddy, GV Ramaraju, and G.S. Reddy, eSaguTM: A Data Warehouse Enabled Personalized Agricultural Advisory System, Proceedings of ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data 2007 (ACM SIGMOD 2007), ACM Press, pp.910-914.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and GV Ramaraju, e-Sagu: The Next Generation IT-based Query-less, Cost-effective and Personalized Agro-Advisory System, Proceedings of First International Conference on ICT Solutions for Socio- Economic Development (ISED . 2007), pp. 71-77, C-DAC, Bangalore, India, March 12-13, 2007.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and GV Ramaraju, e-Sagu: The Next Generation IT-based Query-less, Cost-effective and Personalized Agro-Advisory System, International Conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, December 27-30, 2006.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and GV Ramaraju, eSagu: An IT-based Personalized Agricultural Extension System- A Prototype Experience, Fifth International Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA2006), November 9-11, 2006, Bangalore, India.

 
• SVS Gopalaswamy, S.Sivashankar Reddy, G.Shyamasudar Reddy, P.Krishna reddy, Impact of eSagu (It-based Personalized Agricultural Extension System) in Reducing the cost of Cotton Crop--A Case Study, Fifth International Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA2006), November 9-11, 2006, Bangalore, India.

 
• G.Shyamasudar Reddy and P.Krishna Reddy, Efficient Implementation of Agri-insurance Schemes by Piggybacking eSagu System, Third National Workshop on "ICT and Agriculture: From Potential to Prosperity in a Global Perspective", IAITA and DA-IICT, Ahmedabad, India, 15-16, June 2006.[PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• D.Ravishankar, Prdeep Beerla, and P.Krishna Reddy, Leader-page resources in the World Wide Web, Proceedongs of 12th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2005b), December 20-22, Hyderabad, India, 2005. [PDF]  [Abstract] 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, A.Sudarshan Reddy, B.Venkateswar Rao, M.Kumaraswamy, The Application of ICT in Agriculture--The Case of "eSagu" model of Web-based Agricultural Expert Advice Dissemination System, Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society at Hyderabad, India, 12-15 December, 2005.  

 
• P. Krishna Reddy, G.Syamasundar Reddy, A.Sudarshan Reddy, and B.Venkateshwar Rao, eSagu: An IT-Based Personalized Agricultural Extension System--A Prototype Experience, Seminar on Science, Technology and Development (in the honor of Prof. Amulya K.N. Reddy on the occasion of his 75th birthday) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on 28 October 2005.  

 
• P. Arun Kumar, K. Praveen Kumar, T. Someswara Rao, and P. Krishna Reddy, An Improved Approach to Extract Document Summaries Based on Popularity, International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS), University of Aizu, Japan, March 28 - 30, 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, G. Shyamsundar Reddy, B. Rammohan Rao, D. Guruva Reddy, P.Vasudeva Reddy, and M.Kumaraswamy, IT-based agriculture extension system: experiences with One thousand cotton farmer's prototype, Proceedings of International Conference on ICT in Education and Development (AISECT2004), Vol.1, pp. 39-46, December 16-18, 2004, Bhopal, India.  

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, G. Shyamsundar Reddy, B. Rammohan Rao, D. Guruva Reddy, B.V.Ratnam, P.Vasudeva Reddy, and M.Kumaraswamy, e-AgriClinic- An IT based approach for cost-effective and personalized agriculture extension system, Proceedings of International Conference on ICT in Education and Development (AISECT2004), Vol.1, pp. 97-105, December 16-18, 2004, Bhopal, India.  

 
• Kumar Gaurav, Swati Agrawal and P.Krishna Reddy, Towards an IT-based Bus Information System to Improve Bus Occupancy in Hyderabad, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2004), Hyderabad, India, December 2004, Universities Press, pp 396-405. 

 
• Pankaj Kumar Madhukar, Rakesh Kumar and P.Krishna Reddy, A Recommender System for Indian Movies,Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2004), Hyderabad, India, December 2004, Universities Press, pp 338-346. 

 
• Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli, Raghu Kishore Gandham, Rama Murthy Garimella, P.Krishna Reddy, Low-cost Distributed Anonymous File Server for the Internet, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2004), Hyderabad, India, December 2004, Universities Press, pp 220-228. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, G.Shyamsunder Reddy, J.Tirupathi, B.Rammohan Rao, D.Guruva Reddy, M.Anitha, and M.Kumaraswamy, Towards building IT-based Cost-effective and Personalized Agricultural Extension Systems, Proceedings of National Seminar on Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development, September 09-10, 2004, pp.219-235, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, G.Shyamsunder Reddy, J.Tirupathi, B.Rammohan Rao, D.Guruva Reddy, M.Anitha, and M.Kumaraswamy, An IT based Personalized Agricultural Extension System to Improve Crop Productivity: Preliminary Experiences with 1000 Cotton Farmers Prototype, National Seminar on Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development, September 09-10, 2004, pp.236-244, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, A Framework of Information Technology Based Agriculture Information Dissemination System to Improve Crop Productivity. In the proceedings of Andhra Pradesh Economic Association, XXII Annual Conference, 14-15, February 2004, DNR College, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh (Theme: Role of Information Technology in A.P). 

 
• G.Rama Murthy, Gaurav Vijayvargiya, M.Thiyagarajan, P.Krishna Reddy, Optimal binary filters: neural networks, First Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI03), December 18-20, Hyderabad, India, Springer-Verlag. 

 
• Rajat Gupta, BVL Narayana, P.Krishna Reddy, GV Ranga Rao, CLL Gowda, YVR Reddy, and C.Ramamurthy, Understanding Helicoverpa armigera Pest Population Dynamics related to chickpea crop using neural networks, Third International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2003), Florida, USA, November, 19-22,2003, IEEE Computer Society Press. [PDF]  [Abstract]  

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, A novel framework for information technology based agricultural information dissemination system to improve crop productivity, proceedings of 27th convention of Indian Agricultural Universities Association, December 9-11, 2002, published by Acharya N.G.Ranga Agricultural University, ANGRAU press, pp. 437-459, Hyderabad, India. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, Masaru Kitsuregawa, P.Sreekanth and S.Sreenivasa Rao, A graph based approach to extract a neighborhood customer community for collaborative filtering. Subhash Bhalla (Ed.), Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2544, pp. 188-200, December 2002. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, An approach to build a cyber-community hierarchy, Workshop on Web Analytics (WWA2002), April 13, 2002, held in Conjunction with Second  SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2002), Arlington, VA, USA.  [PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, An approach to relate the web communities through bipartite graphs,  The Second International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2001), 3 - 6 December 2001, IEEE Computer Society. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Blocking reduction in two-phase commit protocol with multiple backup sites, International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS2000), The University of Aizu, JAPAN, December 4-6, 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1966, pp. 200-215, Springer-Verlag. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Speculation based nested locking protocol to increase the concurrency of nested transactions, International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS2000), September 18-20, 2000, Yokohoma, Japan, IEEE Computer Society Press. [PDF]  [Abstract]

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Scalable protocols for the Internet to reduce service time and server load, 1999 International Computer Science Conference (Theme: Internet Applications), December 13-15, 1999, Hong Kong, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.1749, pp.346-353, Springer-Verlag.[PDF]  [Abstract] 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Speculative lock management to increase concurrency in mobile environments, The First International Conference on Mobile Data Access (MDA'9), December 15-17, 1999, Hong Kong, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1748, pp. 82-96, Springer-Verlag. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Speculation to increase the concurrency of nested transactions, The International Conference on Information Technology (CIT'99) 1999, December 20-22, Bhubaneswar, India, pp.53-60, TATA-McGRAW HILL. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Reducing blocking in two-phase commit protocol employing backup sites, In the Third IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CooIS'98), pp. 406-415, August 20-22, 1998, New York, USA, published by IEEE Computer Society Press. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Masaru Kitsuregawa, Improving Performance in Distributed Database Systems Using Speculative Transaction Processing, in the Proceedings of The Second European and Distributed Systems Conference (Euro-PDS'98), Editors: O.Bukhres and H.El-Rewini, IASTED press, pp.275-285, July 1-3, 1998, Vienna, Austria. 

 
• P.Krishna Reddy, "An Improved Transaction Processing Approach for Distributed Database Systems", in proceedings of A Conference on Recent Developments in Computer Science Applications, pp.46-51, Philadelphia University, AMMAN, July 8-9, 1997.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, "Non-blocking Concurrency Control in Distributed Database Systems" in the proceedings of Aizu International Symposium on Parallel Algorithm/ Architecture Synthesis (pAs'95), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 15-17, 1995, pp.192-198, published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, "A Rejection Free Concurrency Control Approach for Replicated Data", in proceedings of Second International Conference on Information Systems and Management of Data, (CISMOD'93), Editor: N.L.Sarda, October 1993, New Delhi, India, Published by TATA McGRAW-HILL.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, "An Algorithm for Deadlock Prevention in a Distributed Database System", in proceedings of International Conference on Management on Data (COMAD'92), pp.203-212, December 1992, Bangalore, India, published by TATA McGRAW-HILL.

 
• P.Krishna Reddy and Subhash Bhalla, "Increasing Reliability in Distributed Systems", in proceedings of Indian Computing Congress (ICC'91), pp.117-127, December 1991, Hyderabad, India, published by TATA McGRAW-HILL.

Mark Twain wrote "The man/woman  who does not read good books has no advantage over the man/woman who cannot read them". 

In addition to research papers and subject related  books, I try to read  general books  whenever I am free. Here, I  read  the following books at least once (I will  add more to this list in due course). I also recommend you to read them. You can get more information about these books from www.amazon.com.

• The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge. 
• COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS by Mitchell Waldrop.
• Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred Robert Schroeder. 
• Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder. 
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
• OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway. 
• Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre. 
• Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
• Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 
• First and Last Freedom,  J.Krishnamurty.
• What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart. 
• Diffusion of Innovations, Everett M. Rogers, Free Press Publications, Fourth Edition (1995)
• Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe (Scientific American) by Keith J. Devlin.
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. 
• Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-László Barabási. 
• Small worlds: The dynamics of networks between order and randomness by Duncan J.Watts.
• Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville.
• The Art of War by Sun-Tzu.
• Why I am not an Hindu by Kancha Ilaiah
• God Creatd Integers by Stephen Hawking
• DNA, by James Watson
• Chaos, by James Gleick
• The argumentative Indian, by Amarthya Sen
• The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
• Blink, by Gladwell
• Tipping point by Gladwell
• Critical mass by Philip Ball
• End of the history and the last man, Francis Fukuyama
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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