Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications

by Zongmin Ma PH.D.

Overview

Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of industrial database modeling, Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications provides a single record of current research and practical applications in industrial database modeling. This book discusses the major aspects of databases for industry: data modeling, database models, and database applications in information systems.

Readers of Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications will gain a complete understanding of the notions, techniques, and methods related to the research and developments of industrial database modeling, which will serve as both a starting point and a reference for their research and developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591406846
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	12/31/2005
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	7.12(w) x 10.32(h) x 1.07(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vi
	Acknowledgments	xii
Section I	Industrial Databases and Applications
Chapter I	Databases Modeling of Engineering Information	1
Chapter II	Database Design Based on B	35
Chapter III	The Management of Evolving Engineering Design Constraints	62
Chapter IV	Similarity Search for Voxelized CAD Objects	115
Chapter V	STEP-NC to Complete Product Development Chain	148
Chapter VI	Semantic-Based Dynamic Enterprise Information Integration	185
Chapter VII	Web Service Integration and Management Strategies for Large-Scale Datasets	217
Chapter VIII	Business Data Warehouse: The Case of Wal-Mart	244
Chapter IX	A Content-Based Approach to Medical Image Database Retrieval	258
Section II	Generic Database Modeling
Chapter X	Conceptual Modeling for XML: A Myth or a Reality	293
Chapter XI	Constraint-Based Multi-Dimensional Databases	323
	About the Authors	361
	Index	369