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Product Description: The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2004, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2004. The 57 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions and 8 demonstration and poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 295 submissions...read more

Product Description: This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB'98, held in conjunction with EDBT'98 in Valencia, Spain, in March 1998. The 13 revised full papers presented were selected during two rounds of reviewing from initially 37 submissions...read more

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Product Description: The DBPL Workshops have been held every other year since 1987. They are closely related to the series of International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS) which take place on alternate years. The DBPL Workshops provide an important forum for discussion in a field which combines the key technologies for the future of data-intensive systems...read more

Product Description: This book presents a collection of coordinated scientific papers describing the work conducted and the results achieved within the LOGIDATA+ project, a research action funded by the Italian national research council CNR. The aim of the LOGIDATA+ project is the definition of advanced database systems which significantly extend the functionalities of the current systems, with specific reference to the application areas for which relational systems are not considered satisfactory...read more

Product Description: Written by internationally recognized authorities in the database field, this book delivers a thorough discussion of the foundations of the relational model of database design along with a systematic treatment of the formal theory for the model. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)