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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. LING LIU

    1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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  2. M. TAMER ÖZSU

    1. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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  • Comprehensive reference to about 1,400 entries, covering key concepts and terms in the broad field of database systems.
  • Entries include in-depth essays and shorter descriptions of terms, definition, key words, historical background, illustrations, key applications, and a bibliography.
  • Available as printed volume and an XML e-Reference searchable online work.
  • Simple-to-use alphabetical format and extensive cross references enable both user-friendly and efficient searches.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (3067 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lxix
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  2. A

    1. Absolute Time

      • Christian S. Jensen, Richard T. Snodgrass
      Pages 1-1

    2. Abstract Versus Concrete Temporal Query Languages

      • Jan Chomicki, David Toman
      Pages 1-6

    3. Abstraction

      • Bernhard Thalheim
      Pages 6-7

    4. Access Control

      • Elena Ferrari
      Pages 7-11

    5. Access Control Administration Policies

      • Elena Ferrari
      Pages 12-14

    6. Access Control Policy Languages

      • Athena Vakali
      Pages 15-18

    7. Access Methods

      Pages 18-18

    8. Access Path

      • Evaggelia Pitoura
      Pages 19-19

    9. Accountability

      Pages 19-19

    10. ACID Properties

      • Gottfried Vossen
      Pages 19-21

    11. ACID Transaction

      Pages 21-26

    12. Acquisitional Query Languages

      Pages 27-28

    13. Active and Real-Time Data Warehousing

      • Mukesh Mohania, Ullas Nambiar, Michael Schrefl, Millist Vincent
      Pages 28-28

    14. Active Database, Active Database (Management) System

      • Mikael Berndtsson, Jonas Mellin
      Pages 28-28

    15. Active Database Management System Architecture

      • Jonas Mellin, Mikael Berndtsson
      Pages 28-33

    16. Active Database Coupling Modes

      • Mikael Berndtsson, Jonas Mellin
      Pages 33-35

    17. Active Database Execution Model

      • Mikael Berndtsson, Jonas Mellin
      Pages 35-36

    18. Active Database Knowledge Model

      • Mikael Berndtsson, Jonas Mellin
      Pages 36-37

    19. Active Database Rulebase

      • AnnMarie Ericsson, Mikael Berndtsson, Jonas Mellin
      Pages 37-37
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Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    LING LIU

  • Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU

About the editors

Co-editor Tamer Özsu is a world-renowned leader in the field, as university research chair for database research group at Waterloo and former editor-in-chief of VLDB journal

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