Web-Powered Databases

Web-Powered Databases provides an excellent snapshot of current research and development activities in the area of Web or Internet databases. Its content supplies potential answers to many questions that have been raised regarding database accesses through the Web. The book also provides a number of case studies of successful Web database applications, including multiple-choice assessment through the Web, an online pay claim, a product catalogue, and content management and dynamic Web pages.

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Explores some technical issues related to accessing a database system through the internet, and presents examples of successful web database implementations. The 11 papers address low level programming, querying and mining web data, heterogeneous and distributed systems, and security. Topics include using first order logic to query XML data, cache management for web databases, and a POA-based CORBA database adapter for web service infrastructure. The four case studies of web content management, a tutor payment system, a multiple choice test, and a product catalog employ object-oriented design. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Johanna Wenny Rahayu received a PhD in Computer Science from La Trobe University, Australia, in 2000. Her thesis was in the area of object-relational database design and transformation technology. This thesis has been awarded as the 2001 Computer Science Association Australia Best PhD Thesis Award. Dr. Rahayu is currently a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University. She has published a book and numerous research articles. Dr. David Taniar holds Bachelor (Honours), Master, and PhD degrees - all in Computer Science and Information Technology, with a particular speciality in Databases. His research areas now expand to Data Mining and Warehousing. He has published more than 100 research articles appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. He has published 5 books, including 2 edited books in the area of Web Technology, covering web databases and web mining. Dr. Taniar is now with the School of Business Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining. He is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA), and Fellow of the Institute for Management Information Systems (FIMIS). He is also an Executive Member of the @WAS (Web Application Services) Society.