This book contains selected research results on non-traditional database systems
from Japanese database research community. In traditional database research, the
main emphases is how to process a large amount of fixed structured data with
minimum amount of selected resources (processing time, communication overhead,
memory size, storage size, etc.).
Nontraditional Database Systems is the fifth volume in the Advanced Information Processing Technology series. It brings together the results of research carried out by the Japanese database research community in the field of nontraditional database systems. The book examines nontraditional types of applications, data types, systems and environments together with high-performance architecture to support nontraditional applications, such as web mining, data engineering and object processing.