Foundations of Knowledge Systems by Gerd Wagner
One of the main uses of computer systems is the management of large amounts of symbolic information representing the state of some application domain, such as information about all the people I communicate with in my personal address database, or relevant parts of the outer space in the knowledge base of a NASA space mission. While database management systems offer only the basic services of information storage and retrieval, more powerful knowledge systems offer, in addition, a number of advanced services such as deductive and abductive reasoning for the purpose of finding explanations and diagnoses, or generating plans. In order to design and understand database and knowledge-based applications it is important to build upon well-established conceptual and mathematical foundations. What are the principles behind database and knowledge systems? What are their major components? Which are the important cases of knowledge systems? What are their limitations? Addressing these questions, and discussing the fundamental issues of information update, knowledge assimilation, integrity maintenance, and inference-based query answering, is the purpose of this book. Foundations of Databases and Knowledge Systems covers both basic and advanced topics. It may be used as the textbook of a course offering a broad introduction to databases and knowledge bases, or it may be used as an additional textbook in a course on databases or Artificial Intelligence. Professionals and researchers interested in learning about new developments will benefit from the encyclopedic character of the book, which provides organized access to many advanced concepts in the theory of databases and knowledge bases.-
Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML
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Advances in Digital Government
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Quantifiers in Action
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Advanced Database Indexing
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Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems
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Advanced Signature Indexing for Multimedia and Web Applications
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Searching Multimedia Databases by Content
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Time-Constrained Transaction Management
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Fuzzy Logic in Data Modeling
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Access to Mobile Services
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Index Data Structures in Object-Oriented Databases
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Database Recovery
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Managing and Mining Graph Data
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Association Rule Hiding for Data Mining
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Parallel, Object-Oriented, and Active Knowledge Base Systems
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Information Brokering Across Heterogeneous Digital Data
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Mutation Testing for the New Century
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Database Concurrency Control
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The Fractal Structure of Data Reference
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Object Relationship Notation (ORN) for Database Applications
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Mining Sequential Patterns from Large Data Sets
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Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective
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Managing and Mining Uncertain Data
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Stream Data Management
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Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems
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Mining Very Large Databases with Parallel Processing
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Data Management for Mobile Computing
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Similarity Search
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Middleware Networks
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Information and Database Quality
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Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems
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Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems
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Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing
`..recommend the book to all people from database and knowledge communities who want to move their research and practice to more advanced innovative systems.'
Zentralblatt MATH, 910 (1999)
Zentralblatt MATH, 910 (1999)
Wagner, Gerd: - Gerd Wagner, Mircea Diaconescu; beide Cotbus
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461376217 |
| ISBN 10 | 1461376211 |
| Title | Foundations of Knowledge Systems |
| Author | Gerd Wagner |
| Series | Advances In Database Systems |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2012-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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