Synopsis
Siau (U. of Nebraska at Lincoln) intends this collection to provide researchers and academics with some of the latest research on databases and database management. He has organized the papers into sections on analysis and evaluation of database models, database designs and applications, database design issues and solutions, and semantic database analysis. Specific topics include assessment of business process modeling languages using a generic quality framework, Web- based ontology-building method guidelines, autonomic computing for automating configuration and optimization tasks, a concurrency control algorithm for high- dimensional index structures, evaluation of the performance of dynamic database applications, indexing regional objects in high-dimensional spaces, and the application of semantic association discovery for the determination of relevance of heterogeneous documents. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Author
Keng Siau is a Full Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Database Management and as the Book Series Editor for Advanced Topics in Database Research. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he majored in Management Information Systems and minored in Cognitive Psychology. His master and bachelor degrees are in Computer and Information Sciences from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Siau has over 200 academic publications. He has published more than 75 refereed journal articles, and these articles have appeared (or forthcoming) in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Information Systems, ACM SIGMIS’s Data Base, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Behaviour and Information Technology, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, and others. In addition, he has published more than 90 refereed conference papers (including 9 ICIS papers), edited/co-edited 12 scholarly and research-oriented books, edited/co-edited 9 proceedings, and written more than 15 scholarly book chapters. He served as the Organizing and Program Chairs of the International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) (1996 – 2005). He is also serving on the organizing committees of AMCIS 2005 and AMCIS 2007. For more information, please visit his website at URL: http://www.ait.unl.edu/siau/
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