Containing both classic and new articles, this collection of 27 articles addresses fundamental concepts and theories, development and design methodologies, tools technologies, applications and utilization, critical issues and emerging trends. Editor Halpin (conceptual modeling, Neumont U.) and his contributors give students and researchers solid first-contact information and references on conceptual modeling solutions, engineering database modeling, learning object repositories, quality knowledge, databases in large and small companies, conceptual modeling for extensible markup language (XML), secure data warehouses, web data warehousing convergence, visual query languages, representation techniques, data models, decision trees, scalable middleware for web databases, formal verification and validation for real-time databases, comparisons of open source and commercial software, mining crime patterns, bioinformatics web portals, XML and unified modeling language models, seismological approaches to data mining, rule discovery from textual data, and action research conducted on the Internet. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
