Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development

✍ Scribed by Keng Siau, Keng Siau, John Erickson

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 450
• Series: Advances in Database Research
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent years have witnessed giant leaps in the strength of database technologies, creating a new level of capability to develop advanced applications that add value at unprecedented levels in all areas of information management and utilization. Parallel to this evolution is a need in the academia and industry for authoritative references to the research in this area, to establish a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable the information technology and managerial communities to realize maximum benefits from these innovations.

Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development presents cutting-edge research and analysis of the most recent advancements in the fields of database systems and software development. This book provides academicians, researchers, and database practitioners with an exhaustive collection of studies that, together, represent the state of knowledge in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
Semantics of the MibML Conceptual Modeling Grammar: An Ontological Analysis Using the Bunge-Wand-Weber Framework......Page 20
A Measurement Ontology Generalizabel for Emerging Domain Applications on the Semantic Web......Page 37
Semantic Integration and Knowledge Discovery for Environmental Research......Page 58
Towards Code Reuse and Refactoring as a Practice within Extreme Programming......Page 82
Requirements Elicitation Technique Selection: A Theory-Based Contingency Model......Page 98
IT Value of Software Development: A Multi-Theoretic Perspective......Page 115
UB2SQL: A Tool for Building Database Applications Using UML and B Formal Method......Page 130
Using Decision Trees to Predict Crime Reporting......Page 151
A Model for Estimating the Savings from Dimensional vs. Keyword Search......Page 165
Integrity Constraint Checking for Multiple XML Databases......Page 177
Accelerating Multi Dimensional Queries in Data Warehouses......Page 197
View Materialization in a Data Cube: Optimization Models and Heuristics......Page 223
WebFINDIT: Providing Data and Service-Centric Access through a Scalable Middleware......Page 244
Retrieval Optimization for Server-Based Repositories in Location-Based Mobile Commerce......Page 274
Migrating Legacy Information Systems to Web Services Architecture......Page 301
A Socio-Technical Intrepretation of IT Convergence Services: Applying a Perspective from Actor Network Theory and Complex Adaptive Systems......Page 327
Understanding Organizational Transformation from IT Implementations: A Look at Structuration Theory......Page 348
Social Network Structures in Open Source Software Development Teams......Page 365
Design of a Data Model for Social Network Applications......Page 379
Compilation of References......Page 405
About the Contributors......Page 442
Index......Page 448