Advanced Database Systems

Narain Gehani, H. V. Jagadish, O. Shmueli (auth.), Nabil R. Adam, Bharat K. Bhargava (eds.)3540575073, 9783540575078, 0387575073

Database management is attracting wide interest in both academic and industrial contexts. New application areas such as CAD/CAM, geographic information systems, and multimedia are emerging. The needs of these application areas are far more complex than those of conventional business applications. The purpose of this book is to bring together a set of current research issues that addresses a broad spectrum of topics related to database systems and applications. The book is divided into four parts: – object-oriented databases, – temporal/historical database systems, – query processing in database systems, – heterogeneity, interoperability, open system architectures, multimedia database systems.

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Table of contents :
COMPOSE: A system for composite specification and detection….Pages 3-15
Access controls in object-oriented database systems — Some approaches and issues….Pages 17-44
The decomposition property of non-deterministic databases….Pages 45-63
The architecture of an object base environment for simulation….Pages 65-85
Transition from a relation to object model implementation….Pages 87-103
An object-oriented knowledge model for KBMS-supported evolutionary prototyping of software systems….Pages 105-125
Applying OOAD in the design and implementation of an intelligent geographic information system….Pages 127-150
Indexical databases….Pages 153-173
A temporal query language for a conceptual model….Pages 175-190
A data model for time-series analysis….Pages 191-212
A relational model and SQL-like query language for spatial databases….Pages 213-225
Parallel query processing….Pages 229-258
Towards flexible distributed information retrieval….Pages 259-276
Efficient parallel recovery in replicated databases….Pages 277-287
Document allocation in multiprocessor information retrieval systems….Pages 289-310
Amalgame: A tool for creating interoperating persistent, heterogeneous components….Pages 313-336
Correctness and enforcement of multidatabase interdependencies….Pages 337-358
FEMUS: A federated multilingual database system….Pages 359-380
Communication and synchronization issues in distributed multimedia database systems….Pages 381-396
Multimedia database systems….Pages 397-411