Advanced Topics in Database Research, vol. 5.1591409365 Advanced topics in database research; v.5. Ed. by Keng Siau. Idea Group Publishing 2006 460 pages $79.95 Paperback QA76.9 Siau (U. of Nebraska at Lincoln) intends this collection to provide researchers and academics with some of the latest research on databases and database management. He has organized the papers into sections on analysis and evaluation of database models, database designs and applications, database design issues and solutions, and semantic See semantics. See also Symantec. database analysis. Specific topics include assessment of business process modeling languages using a generic quality framework, Web- based ontology-building method guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. , autonomic computing Refers to computer systems and networks that configure themselves to changing conditions and are self healing in the event of failure. "Autonomic" means "automatic responses" to unpredictable events. for automating configuration and optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. tasks, a concurrency control In a DBMS, managing the simultaneous access to a database. It prevents two users from editing the same record at the same time and is also concerned with serializing transactions for backup and recovery. algorithm for high- dimensional index structures, evaluation of the performance of dynamic database applications, indexing regional objects in high-dimensional spaces, and the application of semantic association discovery for the determination of relevance of heterogeneous documents. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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