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DB2 Universal Database (UDB) supports many different types of applications, on many different kinds of data, in many different software and hardware environments. This book provides a complete guide...

A General Explanation-Based Learning Mechanism and Its Application to Narrative UnderstandingAuthor: Raymond J. MooneyPublisher: Morgan Kaufmann PublishersPublication Date: Jan 01, 1990Number of...

Advanced SQL:1999 - Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features is the practitioner's handbook to the standard's advanced features. It is not a re-presentation of the standard, but...

As the field of computer graphics develops, techniques for modeling complex curves and surfaces are increasingly important. A major technique is the use of parametric splines in which a curve is...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an intelligent-systems method that enables information managers to increase efficiency and reduce cost by substantially automating processes such as diagnosis,...

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to...

This book develops a theory for transactions that provides practical solutions for system developers, focusing on the interface between the user and the database that executes transactions. Atomic...

Life science data integration and interoperability is one of the most challenging problems facing bioinformatics today. In the current age of the life sciences, investigators have to interpret many...

Adoption of Bluetooth wireless technology has made great strides in the last few years. One of the biggest steps forward--the standardization of Java APIs for Bluetooth wireless technology...

Modern database and software system technology must respond to a wide variety of needs. Advanced applications such as office automation, CAD, or software engineering have new requirements in design...

Business Modeling and Data Mining demonstrates how real world business problems can be formulated so that data mining can answer them. The concepts and techniques presented in this book are the...

Classifier systems play a major role in machine learning and knowledge-based systems, and Ross Quinlan's work on ID3 and C4.5 is widely acknowledged to have made some of the most significant...

An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving computer performance. This innovative book exposes the...

Proceedings of the DARPA Workshops on Case-Based Reasoning.Author: Ray BareissPublisher: Morgan Kaufmann PublishersPublication Date: Apr 01, 1991Number of Pages: 373 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Learning Maya, the world's leading 3D animation and effects package, is a challenge, especially for those who want to master Maya's versatile programming features in addition to its built-in tools...

In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the...

The Web is causing a revolution in how we represent, retrieve, and process information Its growth has given us a universally accessible database, but in the form of a largely unorganized collection...

Whether building a relational, object-relational, or object-oriented database, database developers are increasingly relying on an object-oriented design approach as the best way to meet user needs...

This book is for database designers and database administrators using Visio, which is the database component of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects suite, also included in MSDN...

Database Programming Languages 2ndAuthor: Richard HullPublisher: Morgan Kaufmann PublishersPublication Date: Sep 01, 1989Number of Pages: 442 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This collection offers the reader a broad survey of the role of transaction processing in advanced computer applications. It contains an introduction to traditional transaction technology, and...

Tuning your database for optimal performance means more than following a few short steps in a vendor-specific guide. For maximum improvement, you need a broad and deep knowledge of basic tuning...

The most prominent Web applications in use today are data-intensive. Scores of database management systems across the Internet access and maintain large amounts of structured data for e-commerce,...

Offering new services is a great way for your organization to drive traffic and boost revenue, and what better foundation for these services than IP? This much is a given. The difficulty is uniting...

In the early days of computing, technicians in white coats controlled refrigerator-sized computers housed in sealed rooms, far from ordinary users. Today, computers are inexpensive commodities, like...

Drawing on their experience in industry, research, and academia, this powerful author team combines their expertise to provide an accessible guide to data compression standards and techniques and...

Digital geometry is about deriving geometric information from digital pictures. The field emerged from its mathematical roots some forty-years ago through work in computer-based imaging, and it is...

This book is a boon to technology professionals who are responsible for global integration projects. Faced with the mind-boggling complexities of standardizing global data, global processes and...

Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Volume 6 is the latest in a series of books that records the prestigious Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshops, sponsored and organised by the International...

Fundamentals of the Theory of Computation: Principles and PracticeAuthor: Raymond GreenlawPublisher: Morgan Kaufmann PublishersPublication Date: Apr 01, 1998Number of Pages: 356 pagesBinding:...