Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development
by Siau, Keng; Erickson, JohnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-11-30
Publisher(s): Igi Global
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Summary
"Recent years have witnessed giant leaps in the strength of database technologies, creating a new level of capability to develop advanced applications that add value at unprecedented levels in all areas of information management and utilization. Parallel to this evolution is a need in the academia and industry for authoritative references to the research in this area, to establish a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable the information technology and managerial communities to realize maximum benefits from these innovations." "Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development presents cutting-edge research and analysis of the most recent advancements in the fields of database systems and software development. This book provides academicians, researchers, and database practitioners with an exhaustive collection of studies that, together, represent the state of knowledge in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents
| Ontologies and Semantics | |
| Semantics of the MibMLConceptual Modeling Grammar: An Ontological Analysis Using the Bunge-Wand- Weber Framework | p. 1 |
| A Measurement Ontology Generalizablefor Emerging Domain Applications on the Semantic Web | p. 18 |
| Semantic Integration and Knowledge Discovery for Environmental Research | p. 39 |
| Systems Building | |
| Towards Code Reuse and Refactoring as a Practice within Extreme Programming | p. 63 |
| Requirements Elicitation Technique Selection: A Theory-Based Contingency Model | p. 79 |
| IT Value of Software Development: A Multi-TheoreticPerspective | p. 96 |
| UB2SQL: A Tool for Building Database Applications Using UML and B Formal Method | p. 111 |
| Queries and Data Analysis | |
| Using Decision Trees to PredictCrime Reporting | p. 132 |
| A Model for Estimating the Savings from Dimensional vs. Keyword Search | p. 146 |
| Integrity Constraint Checking for Multiple XML Databases | p. 158 |
| Accelerating Multi Dimensional Queries in Data Warehouses | p. 178 |
| View Materialization in a Data Cube: Optimization Models and Heuristics | p. 204 |
| Web and Mobile Commerce | |
| WebFINDIT: Providing Data and Service-Centric Access through a Scalable Middleware | p. 225 |
| Retrieval Optimization for Server-Based Repositories in Location-Based Mobile Commerce | p. 255 |
| Migrating Legacy Information Systems to Web Services Architecture | p. 282 |
| Organizations and Structures | |
| A Socio-Technical Interpretation of IT Convergence Services: Applying a Perspective from Actor Network Theory and Complex Adaptive Systems | p. 308 |
| Understanding Organizational Transformation from IT Implementations: A Look at Structuration Theory | p. 329 |
| Social Network Structures in Open Source Software Development Teams | p. 346 |
| Design of a Data Model for Social Network Applications | p. 360 |
| Compilation of References | p. 386 |
| Index | p. 429 |
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