Advanced Database Systems (Hardcover)
暫譯: 進階資料庫系統 (精裝版)

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.

Authors:

Stefano Ceri is Professor of Database Systems at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, and object orientation.

Christos Faloutsos is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include physical database design, searching methods for text, geographic information systems, and indexing methods for medical and multimedia databases.

Richard T. Snodgrass is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona, and co-director of the TimeCenter, an international center for the support of temporal database applications on traditional and emerging DBMS technologies. His resarch interests include temporal databases, query language design, query optimization and evaluation, storage structures, database design, and software development databases.

V.S. Subrahmanian is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where his work focuses on incomplete and uncertain information in databases and knowledge bases, integrated heterogeneous data and software, and multimedia systems.

Carlo Zaniolo holds the Friedman Chair in Knowledge Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an active resarcher in the areas of database, knowledge bases, and intelligent databases.

Roberto Zicari is Professor of Computer Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, and an internationally recognized expert in the field of object database systems.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
Part I Active Databases
2 Syntax and Semantics of Active Databases
3 Applications of Active Databases
4 Design Principles for Active Rules
Part II Temporal Databases
5 Overview of Temporal Databases
6 TSQL2
7 Implementation
Part III Complex Queries and Reasoning
8 The Logic of Query Languages
9 Implementation of Rules and Recursion
10 Database Updates and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Part IV Spatial, Text, and Multimedia Databases
11 Traditional Indexing Methods
12 Multimedia Indexing
Part V Uncertainty in Databases and Knowledge Bases
13 Models of Uncertainty
14 Uncertainty in Relational Databases
15 Including Uncertainty in Deductive Databases
Part VI Schema and Database Evolution in Object Database Systems
16 Object Databases and Change Management
17 How to Change the Schema
18 How to Change the Database
19 How to Change the Database Fast

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