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Active Rules in Database Systems

By Norman W. Paton

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1999
ISBN
0387985298, 9780387985299
LCC
QA76.9.D3 A3335 1999
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3454055 bytes)
Series
Monographs in Computer Science
Pages
446\446
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00

Description

Active rules provide a new and important method for designing databases 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 most active researchers.The book is divided into several parts, organized by theme: the first, Fundamentals covers the underlying methodology reagrding active rules, next comes a collection of chapters which cover formal specification, rule analysis, performance analysis, and support tools, the third part is devoted to a number of chapters covering the implementation of active rules in anumber of commercial systems. Finally, come sections on applications and future directions that research may take.All researchers in databases will find this provides a valuable overview of this topic.

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