Advanced Query Processing: Volume 1: Issues and Trends

by Barbara Catania (Editor), Lakhmi C. Jain (Editor)

Overview

This research book presents key developments, directions, and challenges concerning advanced query processing for both traditional and non-traditional data. A special emphasis is devoted to approximation and adaptivity issues as well as to the integration of heterogeneous data sources.

The book will prove useful as a reference book for senior undergraduate or graduate courses on advanced data management issues, which have a special focus on query processing and data integration. It is aimed for technologists, managers, and developers who want to know more about emerging trends in advanced query processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642283222
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	07/29/2012
Series:	Intelligent Systems Reference Library , #36
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

From the content: Advanced Query Processing: An Introduction.- On Skyline Queries and how to Choose from Pareto Sets.- Processing Framework for Ranking and Skyline Queries.- Preference-Based Query Personalization.- Approximate Queries for Spatial Data.- Approximate XML Query Processing.- Progressive and Approximate Join Algorithms on Data Streams.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“This book brings together research in the area of advanced query processing, and hence will be of great interest to professionals in many academic disciplines. The editors of this volume have succeeded in bringing together all the relevant work in the area of query processing and data integration in a variety of environments. It will also fulfill the role of a reference book for students interested in pursuing the subject of query processing in multi-source data environments.” (N. Chakrapani, Computing Reviews, April, 2013)

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