Database management systems will continue to manage large data volumes. Thus, efficient
algorithms for accessing and manipulating large sets and sequences will be required to …

Most common database management systems represent information in a simple record-
based format. Semantic modeling provides richer data structuring capabilities for database …

This database theory book provides a focused presentation of the core material on relational
databases, and presents a number of advanced topics in a unified framework. Some of the …

Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon. com, one of
the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering presents a systematic and pragmatic
approach tobuilding quality into'software systems. Systems must exhibit software quality …

A model to treat the anomalous Hall effect is developed. Based on the Kubo formalism and
on the Dirac equation, this model allows the simultaneous calculation of the skew-scattering …

When separately written programs are composed so that they may cooperate, they may
instead destructively interfere in unanticipated ways. These hazards limit the scale and …

Statically typed programming languages allow earlier error checking, better enforcement of
diciplined programming styles, and the generation of more efficient object code than …

The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating
transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach …