Advanced Topics in Database Research, Volume 2

Advanced Topics in Database Research, Volume 2

Copyright: © 2003 |Pages: 359

ISBN13: 9781591400639|ISBN10: 1591400635|EISBN13: 9781591400981

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-063-9

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Advanced Topics in Database Research strives to provide comprehensive coverage of the managerial and organizational issues of database technology. Volume two details information that is instrumental in the improvement and development of theory and practice related to information technology and management of information resources by providing leading access on tools, techniques, and methodologies.

*Note: This book is part of a new series entitled “Advanced Topics in Database Research”. This book is Volume Two within this series (Vol. II, 2003).

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Information and Conceptual Modeling in Database

Chapter 1

Meta-Model Based Information Mediation (pages 1-12)

Luyin Zhao, Keng Siau

Information mediation is one of the major approaches to solve interoperability problems related to heterogeneous information integration. This paper first discusses the concept of information mediation and typical mediation...

Chapter 2

Applying UML for Designing Multidimensional Databases and OLAP Applications (pages 13-36)

Juan Trujillo, Sergio Lujan-Mora, Il-Yeol Song

Multidimensional (MD) modeling is the basis for Data warehouses (DW), multidimensional databases (MDB), and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications. In this chapter, we present how the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be...

Chapter 3

On the Representation of Temporal Dynamics (pages 37-53)

Salvatore T. March, Gove N. Allen

Research in temporal database management has suggested that the Entity-Relationship model must be extended to compensate for its lack of constructs for representing the world’s dynamic nature. This claimed deficiency arises from the...

Advanced Database Designs and Applications

Chapter 4

A Review of Experiments on Natural Language Interfaces (pages 54-71)

Hock Chuan Chuan, John Lim

This chapter provides a review, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, of experimental studies on natural language interfaces. As data utilization is an important aspect of information systems, numerous experimental...

Chapter 5

The Development of Ordered SQL Packages in Peer-to-Peer Data Warehousing Environments (pages 72-103)

Wilfred Ng, Mark Levene

This chapter discusses how the capabilities of database languages are enhanced to manipulate user-defined data orderings within the framework of the Ordered Relational Model (the ORM), which incorporates partial orderings into data...

Chapter 6

Implementation Techniques for Extensible Object Storage Systems (pages 104-127)

Jung-Ho Ahn, Ha-Joo Song, Hyoung-Joo Kim

An efficient object manager, a middle layer on top of a storage system, is essential to ensure acceptable performance of object-oriented database systems, since a traditional record-based storage system is too simple to provide...

Chapter 7

A Run-Time Based Technique to Optimize Queries in Distributed Internet Databases (pages 128-161)

Latifur Khan, Arunkumar Ponnusamy, Dennis McLeod, Cyrus Shahabi

An adaptive probe-based optimization technique is developed and demonstrated in the context of an Internet-based distributed database environment. More and more common are database systems, which are distributed across servers...

Chapter 8

Towards Flexible Specification, Composition and Coordination of Workflow Activities (pages 162-190)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu

We introduce the ActivityFlow specification language for flexible specification, composition, and coordination of workflow activities. The most interesting features of the ActivityFlow specification language include (1) a collection...

Chapter 9

Performance Implications of Knowledge Discovery Techniques in Databases (pages 191-212)

Balaji Rajagopalan, Ravindra Krovi

This chapter introduces knowledge discovery techniques as a means of identifying critical trends and patterns for business decision support. It suggests that effective implementation of these techniques requires a careful assessment...

Chapter 10

Methodology Evaluation Framework for Component-Based System Development (pages 213-245)

Ajantha Dahanayake, Henk Sol, Zoran Stojanovic

Components are already prominent in the implementation and deployment of advanced distributed information systems. Part and parcel of this development are the effective Component Based Development (CBD) methodology encompassing...

Mobile Data Management

Chapter 11

Software Agents for Mobile Commerce Services Support (pages 246-266)

Mihhail Matskin, Amund Tveit

This chapter considers an application of software agents to mobile commerce services provision. With the increasing number of e-commerce services for mobile devices, there are challenges in making these services more personalized and...

Chapter 12

A Framework for Analyzing Mobile Transaction Models (pages 267-299)

Andrés Coratella, Miguel Felder, Roberto Hirsch, Eduardo Rodriguez

Currently, mobile technology is undergoing a high growth stage, allowing an increasing plethora of mobile devices (handheld PCs, handsets, etc.) to access daily-distributed resources and information. This availability entails the...

Chapter 13

Considering Mobility in Query Processing for Mobile Commerce Systems (pages 300-330)

Chih-Horng Ke, Chiang Lee

With the merge of mobile computing and electronic commerce technologies, millions of mobile users in the near future could carry a mobile device requesting services through the electronic commerce applications. While serving such a...

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