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Focuses on mechanisms that can provide unobstructed access to networks. This work provides a review of advances on energy-efficient data delivery protocols, wireless channel bandwidth utilization, broadcasting and cache invalidation strategies for clients with long disconnection time. It also compares and evaluates some of the promising schemes.

In a global and increasingly competitive market, where organizations are driven by information, the search for ways to transform data into true knowledge is critical to a business's success.

Introduces the basic material on storage media, including magnetic disks, RAID systems and tertiary storage such as optical disk and tapes. This book also introduces typical access methods (B+ trees, dynamic hash files and secondary key retrieval). It discusses advances in indexing and access methods for particular database applications.

Parallel, Object-Oriented, and Active Knowledge Base Systems is intended as a graduate-level text for a course on Knowledge Base Systems and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in the areas of database systems, knowledge base systems and Artificial Intelligence.

Middleware Networks: Concept, Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure describes a framework for developing IP Service Platforms and emerging managed IP networks with a reference architecture from the AT&T Labs GeoPlex project.

Advances in hardware technology have increased the capability to store and record personal data. This edited volume contains surveys by distinguished researchers in the privacy field. Each survey includes the key research content as well as future research directions of a particular topic in privacy.

The architectural concept of a memory hierarchy has been immensely successful, making possible today's spectacular pace of technology evolution in both the volume of data and the speed of data access.

Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing begins with the introduction of multimedia information applications, the need for the development of the multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs), and the important issues and challenges of multimedia systems.

We can beam this information anywhere, to mobile workers, to field engineers, to a track loading apples, to ships crossing the Oceans, to web surfers. Web technology and the Internet went even further to provide hyper-linked information access and global computing.

Data Quality provides an expose of research and practice in the data quality field for technically oriented readers. Written with the goal to provide an overview of the cumulated research results from the MIT TDQM research perspective as it relates to database research, this book is an excellent introduction to Ph.D.

Searching Multimedia Databases by Content bridges the gap between the database and signal processing communities by providing the necessary background information for the reader and presenting it along with the intuition and mechanics of the best existing tools in each area.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been experiencing a steady and unprecedented growth in terms of general interest, theory development, and new applications in the last decade or so.