Responding to the requests of database professors nationwide,the leading textbook for the introductory database management course is being fully revised in time for the startof Fall 1999 classes. Fundamentals of Database Systems, Third Edition is updated to reflect the latest developments indatabase research and practice. It combines clear explanations of theory and real systems, broad coverage of modeling and design of databases, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions to modern database technology.
Features of the Third Edition
Presents clear and complete discussion of the relational approach including modeling, design, and query languages
Reorganized material on data modeling to clearly separate entity relationship modeling, extended entity relationship modeling, and object-oriented modeling
NEW! Gives examples of real database systems - Oracle and Microsoft Access - in Ch. 10
NEW and EXPANDED! Provides coverage of the object-oriented and object relational approach to data management including ODMG and SQL3
NEW! Includes discussion of decision support applications of data warehousing and data mining, as well as emerging technologies of web databases, multimedia, and mobile databases
NEW! Covers advanced modeling in the areas of active, temporal, and spatial databases
NEW! Discusses current database application areas of GIS, genome, and digital libraries
Ramez A. Elmasri is a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University. He is known for
his work on conceptual database modeling, temporal database design and indexing, database query
languages and interfaces, and systems integration. Prior to his current position, Elmasri worked
for Honeywell and the University of Houston. Elmasri has over 70 refereed publications in journals
and conference proceedings. He has conducted research in many areas of database systems over the
past twenty years, and in the area of integration of systems and software over the past nine years.
He has advised many MS and PhD students. Elmasri's research has been sponsored by grants from NSF,
NASA, ARRI, Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Digital, and the State of Texas. He has been an
Associate Editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Databases and a member of the
steering committee for the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (formerly ER
Conference). He was Program Chair for the 12th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
(ER'93) and Program Vice Chair for the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.
He is the leading author of the textbook Fundamentals of Database Systems, which is used in
many universities all over the world and has been translated into several languages. The third
edition is scheduled for publication in July 1999 (Addison-Wesley). Elmasri has served on the
program committees of many international conferences, and has presented tutorials and keynote
talks at a number of international conferences. He has received the Robert Q. Lee teaching award
of the College of Engineering of UT-Arlington.
Shamkant Navathe is a professor and the head of the database research group at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He is well-known for his work on database modeling, database conversion, database design, distributed database allocation, and database integration. He has worked with IBM and Siemens in their research divisions and has been a consultant to various companies including Digital,CCA, HP and Equifax. He was the General Co-chairman of the 1996 International VLDB (Very Large Data Base) conference in Bombay, India.
He was also program co-chair of SIGMOD 1985 and General Co-chair of the IFIP WG 2.6 Data Semantics Workshop in 1995. He has been an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is also on the editorial boards of Information Systems
(Pergamon Press) and Distributed and Parallel Databases (Kluwer Academic Publishers). He is an author of the book, Fundamentals of Database Systems, with R. Elmasri (Addison Wesley) which is currently the leading database text-book worldwide. He also co-authored the book Conceptual Design: An Entity Relationship Approach (Addison Wesley, 1992) with Carlo Batini and Stefano Ceri. His current research interests include human genome data management,intelligent information retrieval, data mining and warehousing, web-based knowledge warehouses and mobile database synchronization. Navathe holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has over 100 refereed publications.
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