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Publications & patents

Research that became working systems

From a UCLA dissertation on database concurrency with Leonard Kleinrock to three US patents and recent invited talks on data platforms, the thread is the same: performance, data, and the practical systems built on them.

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Patents

Three US patents in data management

US 2018/0096378

Monitoring dormant accounts for resurrection in an online system

R. Moniz, F. Mehovic · Facebook, Menlo Park · April 2018

An online system monitors advertiser accounts for inactivity. For each dormant account it evaluates whether a past campaign performed well against a benchmark, such as a percentile of cost-per-objective for the account's country, page category, and objective type, and if so sends a recommendation that highlights the past success and links to purchasing a new campaign.

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US 6,714,945

System, method, and article of manufacture for propagating transaction processing facility based data and for providing the propagated data to a variety of clients

W. Foote, S. Luttenberg, F. Mehovic, C. Murphy, R. Tait, P. Wright · Sabre, Southlake, Texas · March 2004

Extends the 2000 patent so that data propagated from the TPF-based reservation system can be served to many kinds of clients, allowing new applications to be built on relational technology while the mainframe system continues to operate.

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US 6,122,642

System for propagating, retrieving and using transaction processing facility airline computerized reservation system data on a relational database processing platform

F. Mehovic · Sabre, Dallas, Texas · September 2000

Compiles the unstructured passenger name record from the mainframe reservation system on the fly into SQL statements against a relational database, and converts application command syntax the same way, so the legacy and relational systems can coexist during migration.

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Publications

Papers, presentations, and theses

In reverse chronological order. Items 19 and 20 are in Bosnian.

2020s · Data platforms and the data function

  1. PresentationData Context Solution for Managing Data PlatformsF. Mehovic · University of Louisville, Kentucky · January 2025
  2. PresentationData Context 2024F. Mehovic · NUIST, Nanjing, China · September 2024
  3. PaperData Context Research Portfolio 2024F. Mehovic · EntrePro internal publication · April 2024
  4. PresentationData Context: Revolutionary Data Platform ManagementF. Mehovic · Google Developer Group Sarajevo · Summer 2024
  5. PresentationData Function for a Successful SaaS OrganizationF. Mehovic · Google Developer Group Sarajevo · Winter 2024

2010s · Social networks and SaaS architecture

  1. PatentMonitoring Dormant Accounts for Resurrection in an Online SystemR. Moniz, F. Mehovic · US 2018/0096378 · Menlo Park · April 2018
  2. PresentationGarbanzo Architecture: An Economical Symmetrical Scalable Architecture for SaaSF. Mehovic · Computer Engineering and Computer Science Colloquium, University of Louisville · October 2010

2000s · Airline systems and record linkage

  1. PatentSystem, Method, and Article of Manufacture for Propagating Transaction Processing Facility Based Data and for Providing the Propagated Data to a Variety of ClientsW. Foote, S. Luttenberg, F. Mehovic, C. Murphy, R. Tait, P. Wright · US 6,714,945 · Southlake, Texas · March 2004
  2. PresentationRecord Linkage TheoryF. Mehovic · Computational Science Research Center Colloquium, San Diego State University · November 2003
  3. PatentSystem for Propagating, Retrieving and Using Transaction Processing Facility Airline Computerized Reservation System Data on a Relational Database Processing PlatformF. Mehovic · US 6,122,642 · Dallas, Texas · September 2000

1990s · Performance modeling at IBM and UCLA

  1. PaperGeneration of Short Unique Key Values for Database TablesF. Mehovic · IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 06B · June 1993
  2. PaperPerformance Modeling in Software DevelopmentF. Mehovic · IBM publication · December 1992
  3. JournalPoisson Winner QueuesL. Kleinrock, F. Mehovic · Performance Evaluation 14, pp. 79–101 · 1992

1980s · UCLA and Sarajevo

  1. DissertationPerformance Modeling of Concurrency ControlF. Mehovic · Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA Computer Science Department, Technical Report CSD-890011 · March 1989 · chair: Leonard Kleinrock
  2. PresentationInformation System of UCLAA. Barber, F. Mehovic · International Seminar University Today, Dubrovnik · August 1986
  3. ThesisDesign and Implementation of TeleWeb On-line SystemF. Mehovic · M.S. thesis, UCLA · December 1985
  4. PaperEQUAL: Language Specification and Application GuideS. Alagic, M. Kandic, F. Mehovic, D. Jurkovic · Institute for Control and Computer Science Technical Report, Sarajevo · 1985
  5. PaperImplementation of Inverted Lists in Document Handling System INDOSF. Mehovic, M. Kantardzic, S. Kovacevic · International Symposium Cavtat 81 · September 1981
  6. PaperPerformance Evaluation of Software Packet for Retrieval: INDOSM. Kantardzic, F. Mehovic, S. Kovacevic · International Symposium Jahorina 81, Sarajevo · March 1981 · in Bosnian
  7. JournalINDOS: Interactive General Purpose Document Handling System Implemented on MinicomputerM. Kantardzic, F. Mehovic, S. Kovacevic · Praksa, Yugoslav Journal for Informatics, Year XV, No. 11 · November 1980 · in Bosnian
  8. PaperProgram Package for Statistical Analysis of Multidimensional TablesF. Mehovic, M. Kantardzic · International Symposium Jahorina 80, Sarajevo · March 1980

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