Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems
By: edited by Jacek Błażewicz, Wieslaw Kubiak, Tadeusz Morzy, Marek Rusinkiewicz
Contributors: Kubiak, Wieslaw; Morzy, Tadeusz; Rusinkiewicz, M. (Marek)
Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems; International handbooks on information systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9783642534416; 9783540247425
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems; Computer science; Management information systems
Description: The Handbook provides practitioners, scientists and graduate students with a good overview of basic notions, methods and techniques, as well as important issues and trends across the broad spectrum of data management. In particular, the book covers fundamental topics in the field such as distributed databases, parallel databases, advanced databases, object-oriented databases, advanced transaction management, workflow management, data warehousing, data mining, mobile computing, data integration and the Web. Summing up, the Handbook is a valuable source of information for academics and practitioners who are interested in learning the key ideas in the considered area.
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Table of contents: title: Management of Data: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Trends; title: Database Systems: from File Systems to Modern Database Systems; title: Data Modeling; title: Object-Oriented Database Systems; title: High Performance Parallel Database Management Systems; title: Advanced Database Systems; title: Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Database Systems; title: Workflow Technology: the Support for Collaboration; title: Data Warehouses; title: Mobile Computing; title: Data Mining.