C. J. Date is one of the founding fathers of the relational database field. Many of today’s seasoned database professionals "grew up" on Date’s writings. Those same professionals, along with other serious database students and practitioners, form the core audience for Date’s ongoing writing efforts. Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006 is a compilation of Date’s most significant articles and papers over the past seven years. It gives readers a one-stop place in which to find Date’s latest thinking on relational technology. Many papers are not easily found outside this book.

This volume contains the tutorial papers of the Summer School “Reasoning Web,”July25–29,2005(http://reasoningweb. org). TheSchoolwashostedbythe University of Malta and was organized by the Network of Excellence REWERSE “Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics” (http://rewerse. net), funded by the EU Commission and by the Swiss Federal O?ce for Edu- tion and Science within the 6th Framework Programme under the project ref- ence number 506779. The objective of the school was to provide an introduction into methods and issues of the Semantic Web, a major endeavor in current Web research, where the World Wide Web Consortium W3C plays an important role. The main idea of the Semantic Web is to enrich Web data with meta-data carrying a “meaning” of the data and allowing Web-based systems to reason about data (and meta-data). The meta-data used in Semantic Web applications is usually linked to a conceptualization of the application domain shared by di?erent applications. Such a conceptualization is called an ontology and sp- i?es classes of objects and relations between them. Ontologies are de?ned by ontology languages, based on logic and supporting formal reasoning. Just as the current Web is inherently heterogeneous in data formats and data semantics, the Semantic Web will be inherently heterogeneous in its reasoning forms. - deed, any single form of reasoning turns out to be insu?cient in the Semantic Web.

This book presents the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of three workshops held during the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '98, in Singapore in November 1998. The 50 revised papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book is divided in sections on knowledge discovery, data mining, data and web warehousing, multidimensional databases, data warehouse design, caching, data dissemination, replication, mobile networks, mobile platforms, tracking and monitoring, collaborative work support, temporal data modelling, moving objects and spatial indexing, spatio-temporal databases, and video database contents.

Distributed Systems: Concurrency and Consistency explores the gray area of distributed systems and draws a map of weak consistency criteria, identifying several families and demonstrating how these may be implemented into a programming language. Unlike their sequential counterparts, distributed systems are much more difficult to design, and are therefore prone to problems. On a large scale, usability reminiscent of sequential consistency, which would provide the same global view to all users, is very expensive or impossible to achieve. This book investigates the best ways to specify the objects that are still possible to implement in these systems. - Explores the gray area of distributed systems and draws a map of weak consistency criteria - Investigates the best ways to specify the objects that are still possible to implement in these systems - Presents a description of existing memory models and consistency criteria

Electronic navigation, although still relatively new, is becoming increasingly more common, particularly on commercial vessels. This handbook offers a wealth of detailed information about how different charting systems operate and answers the most commonly asked questions regarding electronic charts (ENC, RNC, DNC) and electronic chart systems (ECD

The United States Marine Corps is the largest such force on the planet, and yet it is the smallest, most elite section of the U.S. military, one with a long and storied history and current operations that are among the most sophisticated in the world. Here, in the most current version of the manual used by the Corps itself, is the guidebook used by the service in its counterintelligence support of the Marine airground task force. Learn about: . how counterintelligence (CI) supports strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war . the command structure of Marine CI organizations . how intelligence missions are planned and operatives deployed . the operation of such activities as mobile and static checkpoints, interrogation, and surveillance . counterintelligence training . and much, much more. Military buffs, wargamers, readers of espionage thrillers, and anyone seeking to understand how American armed services operate in the ever-changing arena of modern warfare will find this a fascinating and informative document.

This 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.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of four international workshops held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2002, in Tampere, Finland in October 2002. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on management of time and changes in information systems; architectures, models, and tools for systems evolution; conceptual modeling approaches to mobile information systems development; quality of conceptual models; requirements and entity relationship models; class models and architectures; Web and interactive models; processes, models, and Web services; e-business methods and technologies; and success factors for conceptual modeling in e-business.