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Database and Applications Security: Integrating Information Security and Data Management
by Bhavani ThuraisinghamThis is the first book to provide an in-depth coverage of all the developments, issues and challenges in secure databases and applications. It provides directions for data and application security, including securing emerging applications such as bioinformatics, stream information processing and peer-to-peer computing. Divided into eight sections,
Database and Expert Systems Applications: DEXA 2019 International Workshops BIOKDD, IWCFS, MLKgraphs and TIR, Linz, Austria, August 26–29, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1062)
by Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail Khalil Mourad Elloumi Atif Mashkoor Johannes Sametinger Xabier Larrucea Anna Fensel Jorge Martinez-Gil Bernhard Moser Christin Seifert Benno Stein Michael GranitzerThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four workshops held at the 30th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019: The 10th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data, BIOKDD 2019, the 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems, IWCFS 2019, the 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs, MLKgraphs2019, and the 16th International Workshop on Technologies for Information Retrieval, TIR 2019. The 26 selected papers discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligent.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 28th International Conference, DEXA 2017, Lyon, France, August 28-31, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10439)
by Djamal Benslimane, Ernesto Damiani, William I. Grosky, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Amit Sheth and Roland R. WagnerThis two volume set LNCS 10438 and LNCS 10439 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, August 2017. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 166 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: Semantic Web and Semantics; Graph Matching; Data Modeling, Data Abstraction, and Uncertainty; Preferences and Query Optimization; Data Integration and RDF Matching; Security and Privacy; Web Search; Data Clustering; Top-K and Skyline Queries; Data Mining and Big Data; Service Computing; Continuous and Temporal Data, and Continuous Query Language; Text Processing and Semantic Search; Indexing and Concurrency Control Methods; Data Warehouse and Data Stream Warehouse; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Recommender Systems and Query Recommendation; Graph Algorithms; Semantic Clustering and Data Classification.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 28th International Conference, DEXA 2017, Lyon, France, August 28-31, 2017, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10438)
by Djamal Benslimane, Ernesto Damiani, William I. Grosky, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Amit Sheth and Roland R. WagnerThis two volume set LNCS 10438 and LNCS 10439 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, August 2017. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 166 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: Semantic Web and Semantics; Graph Matching; Data Modeling, Data Abstraction, and Uncertainty; Preferences and Query Optimization; Data Integration and RDF Matching; Security and Privacy; Web Search; Data Clustering; Top-K and Skyline Queries; Data Mining and Big Data; Service Computing; Continuous and Temporal Data, and Continuous Query Language; Text Processing and Semantic Search; Indexing and Concurrency Control Methods; Data Warehouse and Data Stream Warehouse; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Recommender Systems and Query Recommendation; Graph Algorithms; Semantic Clustering and Data Classification.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: DEXA 2018 International Workshops, BDMICS, BIOKDD, and TIR, Regensburg, Germany, September 3–6, 2018, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #903)
by Mourad Elloumi Michael Granitzer Abdelkader Hameurlain Christin Seifert Benno Stein A Min Tjoa Roland WagnerThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018: the Third International Workshop on Big Data Management in Cloud Systems, BDMICS 2018, the 9th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data, BIOKDD, and the 15th International Workshop on Technologies for Information Retrieval, TIR.The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: parallel data management systems, consistency and privacy cloud computing and graph queries, web and domain corpora, NLP applications, social media and personalization
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 26th International Conference, DEXA 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9261)
by Abdelkader Hameurlain Roland Wagner Hendrik Decker Farouk Toumani Qiming ChenThis two volume set LNCS 9261 and LNCS 9262 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015. The 40 revised full papers presented together with 32 short papers, and 2 keynote talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: temporal, spatial and high dimensional databases; semantic Web and ontologies; modeling, linked open data; NoSQLm NewSQL, data integration; uncertain data and inconsistency tolerance; database system architecture; data mining, query processing and optimization; indexing and decision support systems; modeling, extraction, social networks; knowledge management and consistency; mobility, privacy and security; data streams, Web services; distributed, parallel and cloud databases; information retrieval; XML and semi-structured data; data partitioning, indexing; data mining, applications; WWW and databases; data management algorithms. These volumes also include accepted papers of the 8th International Conference on Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems, Globe 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, September 2, 2015. The 8 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: MapReduce framework: load balancing, optimization and classification; security, data privacy and consistency; query rewriting and streaming.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 30th International Conference, DEXA 2019, Linz, Austria, August 26–29, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11706)
by Sven Hartmann Josef Küng Sharma Chakravarthy Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThis two volume set of LNCS 11706 and LNCS 11707 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019. The 32 full papers presented together with 34 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Big data management and analytics; data structures and data management; management and processing of knowledge; authenticity, privacy, security and trust; consistency, integrity, quality of data; decision support systems; data mining and warehousing. Part II: Distributed, parallel, P2P, grid and cloud databases; information retrieval; Semantic Web and ontologies; information processing; temporal, spatial, and high dimensional databases; knowledge discovery; web services.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 30th International Conference, DEXA 2019, Linz, Austria, August 26–29, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11707)
by Sven Hartmann Josef Küng Sharma Chakravarthy Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThis two volume set of LNCS 11706 and LNCS 11707 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019.The 32 full papers presented together with 34 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Big data management and analytics; data structures and data management; management and processing of knowledge; authenticity, privacy, security and trust; consistency, integrity, quality of data; decision support systems; data mining and warehousing. Part II: Distributed, parallel, P2P, grid and cloud databases; information retrieval; Semantic Web and ontologies; information processing; temporal, spatial, and high dimensional databases; knowledge discovery; web services.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 31st International Conference, DEXA 2020, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12392)
by Sven Hartmann Josef Küng Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThe double volumes LNCS 12391-12392 constitutes the papers of the 31st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2020, which will be held online in September 2020. The 38 full papers presented together with 20 short papers plus 1 keynote papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 190 submissions.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 31st International Conference, DEXA 2020, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12391)
by Sven Hartmann Josef Küng Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThe double volumes LNCS 12391-12392 constitutes the papers of the 31st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2020, which will be held online in September 2020. The 38 full papers presented together with 20 short papers plus 1 keynote papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 190 submissions.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 27th International Conference, DEXA 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9828)
by Sven Hartmann Hui MaThis two volume set LNCS 9827 and LNCS 9828 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, September 2016. The 39 revised full papers presented together with 29 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: Temporal, Spatial, and High Dimensional Databases; Data Mining; Authenticity, Privacy, Security, and Trust; Data Clustering; Distributed and Big Data Processing; Decision Support Systems, and Learning; Data Streams; Data Integration, and Interoperability; Semantic Web, and Data Semantics; Social Networks, and Network Analysis; Linked Data; Data Analysis; NoSQL, NewSQL; Multimedia Data; Personal Information Management; Semantic Web and Ontologies; Database and Information System Architectures; Query Answering and Optimization; Information Retrieval, and Keyword Search; Data Modelling, and Uncertainty.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 29th International Conference, DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3–6, 2018, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11030)
by Sven Hartmann Hui Ma Abdelkader Hameurlain Günther Pernul Roland R. WagnerThis two volume set of LNCS 11029 and LNCS 11030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018.The 35 revised full papers presented together with 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers of the first volume discuss a range of topics including: Big data analytics; data integrity and privacy; decision support systems; data semantics; cloud data processing; time series data; social networks; temporal and spatial databases; and graph data and road networks. The papers of the second volume discuss a range of the following topics: Information retrieval; uncertain information; data warehouses and recommender systems; data streams; information networks and algorithms; database system architecture and performance; novel database solutions; graph querying and databases; learning; emerging applications; data mining; privacy; and text processing.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 29th International Conference, DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3–6, 2018, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11029)
by Sven Hartmann Hui Ma Abdelkader Hameurlain Günther Pernul Roland R. WagnerThis two volume set of LNCS 11029 and LNCS 11030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers of the first volume discuss a range of topics including: Big data analytics; data integrity and privacy; decision support systems; data semantics; cloud data processing; time series data; social networks; temporal and spatial databases; and graph data and road networks. The papers of the second volume discuss a range of the following topics: Information retrieval; uncertain information; data warehouses and recommender systems; data streams; information networks and algorithms; database system architecture and performance; novel database solutions; graph querying and databases; learning; emerging applications; data mining; privacy; and text processing.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: DEXA 2020 International Workshops BIOKDD, IWCFS and MLKgraphs, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1285)
by Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail Khalil Lukas Fischer Bernhard Moser Atif Mashkoor Johannes Sametinger Anna Fensel Jorge Martinez-GilThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops held at the 31st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2020, held in September 2020: The 11th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data, BIOKDD 2020, the 4th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems, IWCFS 2020, the 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs, MLKgraphs2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshop were held virtually. The 10 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 15 submissions, and discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligent.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 34th International Conference, DEXA 2023, Penang, Malaysia, August 28–30, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14147)
by Christine Strauss Toshiyuki Amagasa Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThe two-volume set, LNCS 14146 and 14147 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2023, held in Penang, Malaysia, in August 2023.The 49 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 155 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Data modeling; database design; query optimization; knowledge representation; Part II: Rule-based systems; natural language processing; deep learning; neural networks.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 34th International Conference, DEXA 2023, Penang, Malaysia, August 28–30, 2023, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14146)
by Christine Strauss Toshiyuki Amagasa Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThe two-volume set, LNCS 14146 and 14147 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2023, held in Penang, Malaysia, in August 2023.The 49 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 155 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Data modeling; database design; query optimization; knowledge representation; Part II: Rule-based systems; natural language processing; deep learning; neural networks.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Vienna, Austria, August 22–24, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13426)
by Christine Strauss Alfredo Cuzzocrea Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThis two-volume set, LNCS 13426 and 13427, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, held in Vienna in August 2022.The 43 full papers presented together with 20 short papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 120 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: Big Data Management and Analytics, Consistency, Integrity, Quality of Data, Constraint Modelling and Processing, Database Federation and Integration, Interoperability, Multi-Databases, Data and Information Semantics, Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability, Data Structures and much more.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Vienna, Austria, August 22–24, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13427)
by Christine Strauss Alfredo Cuzzocrea Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThis two-volume set, LNCS 13426 and 13427, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, held in Vienna in August 2022.The 43 full papers presented together with 20 short papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 120 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: Big Data Management and Analytics, Consistency, Integrity, Quality of Data, Constraint Modelling and Processing, Database Federation and Integration, Interoperability, Multi-Databases, Data and Information Semantics, Data Integration, Metadata Management, and Interoperability, Data Structures and much more.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 32nd International Conference, DEXA 2021, Virtual Event, September 27–30, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12924)
by Christine Strauss Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThis two-volume set, LNCS 12923 and 12924, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtually. The 37 full papers presented together with 31 short papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 149 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: big data; data analysis and data modeling; data mining; databases and data management; information retrieval; prediction and decision support.
Database and Expert Systems Applications: 32nd International Conference, DEXA 2021, Virtual Event, September 27–30, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12923)
by Christine Strauss Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail KhalilThis two-volume set, LNCS 12923 and 12924, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtually. The 37 full papers presented together with 31 short papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 149 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: big data; data analysis and data modeling; data mining; databases and data management; information retrieval; prediction and decision support.
Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2021 Workshops: BIOKDD, IWCFS, MLKgraphs, AI-CARES, ProTime, AISys 2021, Virtual Event, September 27–30, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1479)
by Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Atif Mashkoor Anna Fensel Johannes Sametinger Bernhard Moser Jorge Martinez-Gil Gabriele Kotsis Lukas Fischer Sohail Khan Gerald Czech Florian SobieczkyThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 32nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2021, held in a virtual format in September 2021: The 12th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data (BIOKDD 2021), the 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCFS 2021), the 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs (MLKgraphs 2021), the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Clean, Affordable and Reliable Energy Supply (AI-CARES 2021), the 1st International Workshop on Time Ordered Data (ProTime2021), and the 1st International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software (AISys2021). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held virtually. The 23 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 50 submissions, and discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligence.
Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Vienna, Austria, August 22–24, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1633)
by Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail Khalil Bernhard Moser Alfred Taudes Atif Mashkoor Johannes Sametinger Jorge Martinez-Gil Florian Sobieczky Lukas Fischer Rudolf Ramler Maqbool Khan Gerald CzechThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2022: The 6th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCFS 2022); 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs (MLKgraphs 2022); 2nd International Workshop on Time Ordered Data (ProTime2022); 2nd International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software (AISys2022); 1st International Workshop on Distributed Ledgers and Related Technologies (DLRT2022); 1st International Workshop on Applied Research, Technology Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Software and Data Science (ARTE2022). The 40 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 62 submissions, and discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligence.
Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2023 Workshops: 34th International Conference, DEXA 2023, Penang, Malaysia, August 28–30, 2023, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1872)
by Gabriele Kotsis A Min Tjoa Ismail Khalil Bernhard Moser Atif Mashkoor Johannes Sametinger Maqbool KhanThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2023, held in Penang, Malaysia, in August 2023: The 7th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems, IWCFS 2023, and The 3rd International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software, AISys2023. The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 20 submissions, and discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligence.
Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing: An Evidence-Based Approach to Decisions on Architecture and Technology
by Bert ScalzoProvide evidence-based answers that can be measured and relied upon by your business. Database administrators will be able to make sound architectural decisions in a fast-changing landscape of virtualized servers and container-based solutions based on the empirical method presented in this book for answering “what if” questions about database performance.Today’s database administrators face numerous questions such as: What if we consolidate databases using multitenant features? What if we virtualize database servers as Docker containers? What if we deploy the latest in NVMe flash disks to speed up IO access?Do features such as compression, partitioning, and in-memory OLTP earn back their price? What if we move our databases to the cloud?As an administrator, do you know the answers or even how to test the assumptions?Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing introduces you to database benchmarking using industry-standard test suites such as the TCP series of benchmarks, which are the same benchmarks that vendors rely upon. You’ll learn to run these industry-standard benchmarks and collect results to use in answering questions about the performance impact of architectural changes, technology changes, and even down to the brand of database software. You’ll learn to measure performance and predict the specific impact of changes to your environment. You’ll know the limitations of the benchmarks and the crucial difference between benchmarking and workload capture/reply. This book teaches you how to create empirical evidence in support of business and technology decisions. It’s about not guessing when you should be measuring. Empirical testing is scientific testing that delivers measurable results. Begin with a hypothesis about the impact of a possible architecture or technology change. Then run the appropriate benchmarks to gather data and predict whether the change you’re exploring will be beneficial, and by what order of magnitude. Stop guessing. Start measuring. Let Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing show the way.What You'll LearnUnderstand the industry-standard database benchmarks, and when each is best usedPrepare for a database benchmarking effort so reliable results can be achievedPerform database benchmarking for consolidation, virtualization, and cloud projectsRecognize and avoid common mistakes in benchmarking database performanceMeasure and interpret results in a rational, concise manner for reliable comparisonsChoose and provide advice on benchmarking tools based on their pros and consWho This Book Is ForDatabase administrators and professionals responsible for advising on architectural decisions such as whether to use cloud-based services, whether to consolidate and containerize, and who must make recommendations on storage or any other technology that impacts database performance
Database Computing for Scholarly Research: Case Studies Using the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
by Sandra R. Schloen Miller C. ProsserThis book discusses in detail a series of examples drawn from scholarly projects that use the OCHRE database platform (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment). These case studies illustrate the wide range of data that can be managed with this platform and the wide variety of problems solved by OCHRE’s item-based graph data model. The unique features and design principles of the OCHRE platform are explained and justified, helping readers to imagine how the system could be used for their own data.Data generated by studies in the humanities and social sciences is often semi-structured, fragmented, highly variable, and subject to many interpretations, making it difficult to represent adequately in a conventional database. The authors examine commonly used methods of data management in the humanities and offer a compelling argument for a different approach that takes advantage of powerful computational techniques for organizing scholarly information.This book is a challenge to scholars in the humanities and social sciences, asking them to expect more from technology as they pursue their research goals. Written jointly by a software engineer and a research scholar, each with many years of experience in applying database methods to diverse kinds of scholarly data, it shows how scholars can make the most of their existing data while going beyond the limitations of commonly used software tools to represent their objects of study in a more accurate, nuanced, and flexible way.