Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th FIRA International Conference on Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management, and Applications, STA 2011, held in Loutraki, Greece, in June 2011. STA 2011 is the first conference after the merger of the successful SSDU, UbiSec, and TRUST symposium series previously held from 2006 until 2010 in various locations...read more

Product Description: The four-volume set LNCS 6016 - 6019 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2010, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in March 2010. The four volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques...read more

Product Description: The four-volume set LNCS 6016 - 6019 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2010, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in March 2010. The four volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques...read more

Product Description: The four-volume set LNCS 6016 - 6019 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2010, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in March 2010. The four volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques...read more

Product Description: The two-volume set LNCS 5592 and 5593 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2009, held in Seoul, Korea, in June/July, 2009. The two volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques...read more

Product Description: Many commercial DBMS vendors are realizing the growing importance of query processing of mobile databases. Balancing in-depth theoretical and practical information, Mobile Database Query Processing addresses this demand by helping readers learn the complete three-phase mobile database query processing system (on-demand query processing, data broadcasting and caching) and experience it by using real wireless environment PDA's and mobile query programming...read more

Product Description: Continual enhancements and innovation in the mobile computing industry have redesigned and simplified the way businesses and individuals can communicate and conduct their everyday professional and social interactions. So significant are these technological contributions such as PDAs, media players, and wireless sensor networks that it has deeply impacted and influenced nearly every industry in modern societies...read more

Product Description: Recent technological advancements in data warehousing have been contributing to the emergence of business intelligence useful for managerial decision making. Progressive Methods in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: Concepts and Competitive Analytics presents the latest trends, studies, and developments in business intelligence and data warehousing contributed by experts from around the globe...read more

Product Description: The two-volume set LNCS 5072 and 5073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2008, held in Perugia, Italy in June/July 2008. The two volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques...read more

Product Description: As information technology continues to advance in massive increments, the bank of information available from personal, financial, and business electronic transactions and all other electronic documentation and data storage is growing at an exponential rate...read more

'Nowadays, mobile communication, mobile devices, and mobile computing are widely available. The availability of mobile communication networks has made a huge impact to various applications, including commerce. Consequently, there is a strong relationshipbetween mobile computing and commerce. This book brings to readers articles covering a wide range of mobile technologies and their applications'--Provided by publisher.

'This book focuses on the integration between the fields of data warehousing and data mining, with emphasis on applicability to real-world problems; it book provides an international perspective, highlighting solutions to some of researchers' toughest challenges. Developments in the knowledge discovery process, data models, structures and design offer answers and solutions'--Provided by publisher.

'This book provides an overview of current research and development activities in the area of web semantics and ontology, giving an in-depth description of different issues, including modeling, using ontologies in enterprise systems, querying and knowledge discovering of ontologies'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The five-volume set LNCS 3980-3984 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2006. The volumes present a total of 664 papers organized according to the five major conference themes: computational methods, algorithms and applications high performance technical computing and networks advanced and emerging applications geometric modelling, graphics and visualization information systems and information technologies...read more

Product Description: The five-volume set LNCS 3980-3984 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2006, held in Glasgow, UK in May 2006. The five volumes present a total of 664 papers selected from over 2300 submissions...read more

Product Description: The five-volume set LNCS 3980-3984 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2006. The volumes present a total of 664 papers organized according to the five major conference themes: computational methods, algorithms and applications high performance technical computing and networks advanced and emerging applications geometric modelling, graphics and visualization information systems and information technologies...read more

Product Description: Mobile Multimedia is defined as a set of protocols and standards for multimedia information exchange over wireless networks. Therefore the book is organised into four parts. The introduction part, which consists of two chapters introduces the readers to the basic ideas behind mobility management and provides the business and technical drivers, which initiated the mobile multimedia revolution...read more

'This book provides an overview of current research and development activities in the area of web semantics and ontology, giving an in-depth description of different issues, including modeling, using ontologies in enterprise systems, querying and knowledge discovering of ontologies'--Provided by publisher.

Covers comprehensive and fundamental aspects of the implementation of object-oriented modeling in a DBMS that was originated as a pure Relational Database, Oracle.

The Internet is already more widely deployed than any other computing system in history and continues to grow rapidly. New technologies, including high speed wide area network and improved software support for distribution, promise to make the Internet much more useful for general purpose distributed computing in the future. Web Information Systems is dedicated to the new era of information systems on web environments, due to not only the growing popularity of the web technology but also the roles that web technology play in modern information systems. The major elements of Web Information Systems include XML technologies, web mining and querying, web-based information systems, information extraction, and web semantics.

Product Description: Providing a snapshot of current methods and development activities in the area of Internet databases, this book supplies answers to many questions that have been raised regarding database access through the web. Provided are a number of case studies of successful web database applications, including multiple-choice assessment through the web, an online pay claim, a product catalog, and content management and dynamic web pages...read more