Foundations of Databases

Foundations of Databases
Author: Serge Abiteboul
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This product is a complete reference to both classical material and advanced topics that are otherwise scattered in sometimes hard-to-find papers. A major effort in writing the book was made to highlight the intuitions behind the theoretical development.

Architecture of a Database System

Architecture of a Database System
Author: Joseph M. Hellerstein
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1601980787

Architecture of a Database System presents an architectural discussion of DBMS design principles, including process models, parallel architecture, storage system design, transaction system implementation, query processor and optimizer architectures, and typical shared components and utilities.

Database Development and Management

Database Development and Management
Author: Lee Chao
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2006-01-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420003348

Today's database professionals must understand how to apply database systems to business processes and how to develop database systems for both business intelligence and Web-based applications. Database Development and Management explains all aspects of database design, access, implementation, application development, and management, as well

Entity-Relationship Modeling

Entity-Relationship Modeling
Author: Bernhard Thalheim
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662040581

This book is a comprehensive presentation of entity-relationship (ER) modeling with regard to an integrated development and modeling of database applications. It comprehensively surveys the achievements of research in this field and deals with the ER model and its extensions. In addition, the book presents techniques for the translation of the ER model into classical database models and languages, such as relational, hierarchical, and network models and languages, as well as into object-oriented models.

Fundamentals of Database Systems

Fundamentals of Database Systems
Author: Ramez Elmasri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1178
Release: 2007
Genre: Bases de données
ISBN:

This edition combines clear explanations of database theory and design with up-to-date coverage of models and real systems. It features excellent examples and access to Addison Wesley's database Web site that includes further teaching, tutorials and many useful student resources.

Fundamentals of Database Management Systems

Fundamentals of Database Management Systems
Author: Mark L. Gillenson
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780470624708

Gillenson's new edition of Fundamentals of Database Management Systems provides concise coverage of the fundamental topics necessary for a deep understanding of the basics. In this issue, there is more emphasis on a practical approach, with new "your turn" boxes and much more coverage in a separate supplement on how to implement databases with Access. In every chapter, the author covers concepts first, then show how they're implemented in continuing case(s.) "Your Turn" boxes appear several times throughout the chapter to apply concepts to projects. And "Concepts in Action" boxes contain examples of concepts used in practice. This pedagogy is easily demonstrable and the text also includes more hands-on exercises and projects and a standard diagramming style for the data modeling diagrams. Furthermore, revised and updated content and organization includes more coverage on database control issues, earlier coverage of SQL, and new coverage on data quality issues.

Logical Foundations of Database Transformations for Complex-Value Databases

Logical Foundations of Database Transformations for Complex-Value Databases
Author: Qing Wang
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3832525637

Database transformations consist of queries and updates which are two fundamental types of computations in any databases - the first provides the capability to retrieve data and the second is used to maintain databases in light of ever-changing application domains. This dissertation aims to lay down the foundations for establishing a theoretical framework of database transformations in the context of complex-value databases. The previous findings reveal that it is very difficult to characterise common features of database queries and updates in a way which is meaningful for further investigations. Nevertheless, the advent of the sequential Abstract State Machine (ASM) thesis capturing sequential algorithms sheds light on the study of database transformations. Observing that the class of computations described by database transformations may be formalised as algorithms respecting database principles, we propose the database ASM thesis for a complete characterisation of database transformations. It turns out that every database transformation characterised by five postulates can be behaviourally simulated by a database Abstract State Machine (DB-ASM) with the same signature and background, and vice versa. Furthermore, a logic for DB-ASMs is defined. In spite of bounded non-determinism permitted by DB-ASMs, the logic is proven to be sound and complete.

Web Data Management

Web Data Management
Author: Serge Abiteboul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2011-11-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 113950505X

The Internet and World Wide Web have revolutionized access to information. Users now store information across multiple platforms from personal computers to smartphones and websites. As a consequence, data management concepts, methods and techniques are increasingly focused on distribution concerns. Now that information largely resides in the network, so do the tools that process this information. This book explains the foundations of XML with a focus on data distribution. It covers the many facets of distributed data management on the Web, such as description logics, that are already emerging in today's data integration applications and herald tomorrow's semantic Web. It also introduces the machinery used to manipulate the unprecedented amount of data collected on the Web. Several 'Putting into Practice' chapters describe detailed practical applications of the technologies and techniques. The book will serve as an introduction to the new, global, information systems for Web professionals and master's level courses.

Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming

Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming
Author: Jack Minker
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1483221121

Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming focuses on the foundational issues concerning deductive databases and logic programming. The selection first elaborates on negation in logic programming and towards a theory of declarative knowledge. Discussions focus on model theory of stratified programs, fixed point theory of nonmonotonic operators, stratified programs, semantics for negation in terms of special classes of models, relation between closed world assumption and the completed database, negation as a failure, and closed world assumption. The book then takes a look at negation as failure using tight derivations for general logic programs, declarative semantics of logic programs with negation, and declarative semantics of deductive databases and logic programs. The publication tackles converting AND-control to OR-control by program transformation, optimizing dialog, equivalences of logic programs, unification, and logic programming and parallel complexity. Topics include parallelism and structured and unstructured data, parallel algorithms and complexity, solving equations, most general unifiers, systems of equations and inequations, equivalences of logic programs, and optimizing recursive programs. The selection is a valuable source of data for researchers interested in pursuing further studies on the foundations of deductive databases and logic programming.

Logic Programming

Logic Programming
Author: Joxan Jaffar
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1998
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262600316

Includes tutorials, lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming, The Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming, sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming, includes tutorials, lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming, including theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, language design and implementation, nonmonotonic reasoning, and logic programming and the Internet.