Adaptive and evolutionary information systems enable both developers and users to change systems functionality. Such systems are required because of the changing nature of users' requirements. This is a critical area of research and practice for businesses that have to ensure that their...

This book presents research on databases and software development in the area of business applications. Information systems development activities enable many organizations to effectively compete and innovate, as new database and information systems applications are constantly being developed.

"This book includes an introduction to fuzzy logic, fuzzy databases and an overview of the state of the art in fuzzy modeling in databases. It proposes also a method to translate FuzzyEER model to a classical DBMS, and defines FSQL (Fuzzy SQL), an extension of the SQL language that allows users...

This book is intended for researchers and practitioners who seek to understand the latest trends and development in information modeling. The authors review the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice of modeling methods and methodologies in information systems development and provide insight...

Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of intelligent databases, this book provides a single record of current research and practical applications in this field. It integrates data management in databases with intelligent...

This book strives to be the point of reference for the most important issues in the field of multidimensional databases. This book provides a brief history of the field and distinguishes between what is new in recent research and what is merely a renaming of old concepts. The book reviews past...

Multimedia systems and content-based image retrieval are very important areas of research in computer technology. These two areas are changing our life-styles because they together cover creation, maintenance, accessing and retrieval of video, audio, image, textual and graphic data. But still...

Preface -- 1. Object-Relational Approaches -- 2. Object-Oriented Features in Oracle -- 3. Using Object-Oriented Features -- 4. Object-Oriented Methods -- 5. Generic Methods -- 6. User-Defined Queries -- 7. University Case Study -- 8. Retailer Case Study -- About the Authors -- Index

Multimedia searching and management have become popular due to demanding applications and competition among companies. Despite the increase in interest, there is no existing book covering basic knowledge on state-of-the-art techniques within the field. This book provides an introduction to the...

"This book presents probable solutions when discovering the spatial sequence patterns by incorporating the information into the sequence of patterns, and introduces new classes of spatial sequence patterns, called flow and generalized spatio-temporal patterns, addressing different scenarios in...