| This book introduces the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and applications. Our presentations stresses the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and facilities provided by the database management systems, and system implementation techniques. The book is meant to be used as a textbook for a one- or two-semester course in database systems at the junior, senior or graduate level, and as a reference book. We assume that the readers are familiar with elementary programming and data-structuring concepts and that they have had some exposure to the basic computer organization.
We start in Part I with an introduction and a presentation of the basic concepts and terminology, and database conceptual modeling principles. We conclude the book in Parts 7 and 8 with an introduction to emerging technologies, such as data mining, XML, security, and Web databases. Along the way-in Parts 2 through 6-we provide an indepth treatment of the most important aspects of database fundamentals. |
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 | | Theory of Neural Information Processing SystemsTheory of Neural Information Processing Systems provides an explicit, coherent, and up-to-date account of the modern theory of neural information processing systems. It has been carefully developed for graduate students from any quantitative discipline, including mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or biology, and has been... | | |
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