The Chimera Trigger

The Chimera Trigger
Author: Robin Fitzgerald
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359974279

Join a feisty crew as they complete their early missions to arrive at Long Island and defeat those at the collider who intend to send out a pulse that could set off dangerous plasma weapons.This pulse was powered by a small object the size of a baseball, the Black Stone.The many references to Atlantis are to show how this 'type' of electric current was what they used so long ago, from what they called, 'the firestone'.It's a fun ride with an Afterword designed to encourage research of your own.

Advanced Database Systems

Advanced Database Systems
Author: Carlo Zaniolo
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1997-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781558604438

The database field has experienced a rapid and incessant growth since the development of relational databases. The progress in database systems and applications has produced a diverse landscape of specialized technology areas that have often become the exclusive domain of research specialists. Examples include active databases, temporal databases, object-oriented databases, deductive databases, imprecise reasoning and queries, and multimedia information systems. This book provides a systematic introduction to and an in-depth treatment of these advanced database areas. It supplies practitioners and researchers with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of commercial database systems and intelligent information systems. Advanced Database Systems was written by a team of six leading specialists who have made significant contributions to the development of the technology areas covered in the book. Benefiting from the authors' long experience teaching graduate and professional courses, this book is designed to provide a gradual introduction to advanced research topics and includes many examples and exercises to support its use for individual study, desk reference, and graduate classroom teaching.

Active Rules in Database Systems

Active Rules in Database Systems
Author: Norman W. Paton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1441986561

A timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's most active researchers. Divided into several parts organized by theme, the book first covers the underlying methodology regarding active rules, followed by formal specification, rule analysis, performance analysis, and support tools. It then moves on to the implementation of active rules in a number of commercial systems, before concluding with applications and future directions for research. All researchers in databases will find this a valuable overview of the topic.

Rules in Database Systems

Rules in Database Systems
Author: Andreas Geppert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-08-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540635161

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems, RIDS '97, held in Skövde, June 1997. The 13 revised papers presented in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The book documents the state-of-the art in the area. The papers are devoted to deductive databases, active database systems architectures, events in workflow management, rule modelling and simulation, rule confluence, rule termination analysis, rule testing and validation, active database systems design.

Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases

Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
Author: Francois Bry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1997-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540637929

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, DOOD'97, held in Montreux, Switzerland, in December 1997. The 22 revised full papers presented in this book were selected from a total of 59 submissions. Also included are abstracts or full versions of three invited talks and three tutorials and six short presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on materialized view maintenance, extending DBMs features, database updates, managing change in object databases, semantics of active databases, formal semantics, and new directions.

Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules

Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules
Author: Stefano Ceri
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1997
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This text provides the Intelligent Database Environment for Advanced Applications (IDEA) methodology for the development, maintenance and application of modern database systems. It seeks to enable the reader to take advantage of current advances in software engineering techniques. The book is split into three parts covering an introduction to the models and languages used in the methodology; the process of analysis, design, prototyping and implementation; and how to put the methodology to work.

Workflow Management Systems

Workflow Management Systems
Author: Alexandre Mello Ferreira
Publisher: Società Editrice Esculapio
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 8874885490

This book collects some written exercises and solutions from the classworks of the course “Workgroup and Workflow Systems” at the Como campus of the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. Throughout the book, two approaches will be presented to describe business processes: the first approach is based on the UML (Unified Modelling Language) notation (including use case diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams) and on the BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation) notation; the second approach is based on the WIDE (Worfklow on Intelligent Distributed database Environments) methodology, derived from the EU-funded project WIDE.

Database Support for Workflow Management

Database Support for Workflow Management
Author: Paul Grefen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461551714

Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project presents the results of the ESPRIT WIDE project on advanced database support for workflow management. The book discusses the state of the art in combining database management and workflow management technology, especially in the areas of transaction and exception management. This technology is complemented by a high-level conceptual workflow model and associated workflow application design methodology. In WIDE, advanced base technology is applied, like a distributed computing model based on the corba standard. The usability of the WIDE approach is documented in this book by a discussion of two real-world applications from the insurance and health care domains. Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project serves as an excellent reference, and may be used for advanced courses on database and workflow management systems.

Applications of Databases

Applications of Databases
Author: Witold Litwin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540484736

This volume presents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Databases, ADB-94, held at Vadstena, Sweden in June 1994. ADB-94 provided a unique platform for the discussion of innovative applications of databases among database researchers, developers and application designers. The 28 refereed papers were carefully selected from more than 100 submissions. They report on DB applications, for example in air traffic, modelling, maps, environment, finance, engineering, electronic publishing, and digital libraries, and they are devoted to advanced database services, as for example image text and multimedia modelling, fuzzy set based querying, knowledge management, heterogeneous multidatabase management, and intelligent networks.

Maps of Meaning

Maps of Meaning
Author: Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135961751

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps ofMeaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.