"Active rules provide a new and important method for developing database applications, and the subject is seeing an increasing amount of attention from commercial database companies. This book provides a timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's …
Textbook on methodology for the systems design of management information systems and information systems - stresses the need for top management involvement in decision making relating to the computerization of business enterprises, and includes a glossary of terms. Bibliography …
"With the increasing number of images available electronically, automatic retrieval systems are becoming essential. This book introduces an absolute prerequisite for any such system: a metric, called the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD), for comparing images in terms of their appear…
"Focusing on a data-centric perspective, this book provides a complete overview of data mining: its uses, methods, current technologies, commercial products, and future challenges."--BOOK JACKET. "Is there a need for mining? Do you have the right tools? Do you have the people to…
"Dynamic Knowledge Interaction presents interdisciplinary work on the creation of information tools for people developing modern community support systems. Using social psychological, cognitive psychological, and artificial intelligence studies, the authors design and present tw…
Database system implementation
by Widom, Jennifer, Ullman, Jeffrey D., Garcia-Molina, Hector
"If you or your company is heavily invested in a relational database system, someone somewhere has probably told you that you should consider going object-oriented - whatever that means. Although object orientation is well understood and accepted in application development, its …