Object Management in Distributed Database Systems for Stationary and Mobile Computing Environments (Hardcover)

Wujuan Lin

ISBN 10: 1402076002 / ISBN 13: 9781402076008

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, NY, 2003

About this Item

Hardcover. This text presents a specialized topic in the area of database management. Every researcher working in this area may use some of the techniques presented here. The complexity of the subject is handled in a detailed way so as to give down-to-earth explanations. One of the unique features of the work is the presentation of a collective view of common issues prevailing in several domains, including distributed databases. This approach enables the reader to appreciate the use of the tools and techniques developed, in the context of distributed databases applied to several domains, thus favoring multi-disciplinary research activity. N etwork-based computing domain unifies all best research efforts presented from single computer systems to networked systems to render overwhelming computational power for several modern day applications. Any modern day networked application strongly thrives on efficient data storage and management system, which is essentially a Database System. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Object Management in Distributed Database Systems for Stationary and Mobile Computing Environments (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402076002
• ISBN 13: 9781402076008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

N etwork-based computing domain unifies all best research efforts presented from single computer systems to networked systems to render overwhelming computational power for several modern day applications. Although this power is expected to grow with respect to time due to tech­ nological advancements, application requirements impose a continuous thrust on network utilization and on the resources to deliver supreme quality of service. Strictly speaking, network-based computing dornain has no confined scope and each element offers considerable challenges. Any modern day networked application strongly thrives on efficient data storage and management system, which is essentially a Database System. There have been nurnber of books-to-date in this domain that discuss fundamental principles of designing a database systern. Research in this dornain is now far matured and rnany researchers are venturing in this dornain continuously due to a wide variety of challenges posed. In this book, our dornain of interest is in exposing the underlying key challenges in designing algorithms to handle unpredictable requests that arrive at a Distributed Database System(DDBS) and evaluating their performance. These requests are otherwise called as on-line requests arriving at a system to process. Transactions in an on-line Banking service, Airline Reservation systern, Video-on-Demand systern, etc, are few examples of on-line requests.

Review

From the reviews of the first edition:

"The domain of interest in the book is to describe a theoretical tool and its applications on the management of distributed resources. ... The book is written in a very readable style. It is recommended to graduate students, researchers and all those having interest in the DDBS area and related domains." (E. Kostolansky, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1054 (5), 2005)