Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms

Download or read book Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms written by David B. Lomet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-09-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Data Organization and Algorithms, FODO '93, held in Evanston, Illinois. FODO '93 reflects the maturing of the database field which hasbeen driven by the enormous growth in the range of applications for databasesystems. The "non-standard" applications of the not-so-distant past, such ashypertext, multimedia, and scientific and engineering databases, now provide some of the central motivation for the advances in hardware technology and data organizations and algorithms. The volume contains 3 invited talks, 22 contributed papers, and 2 panel papers. The contributed papers are grouped into parts on multimedia, access methods, text processing, query processing, industrial applications, physical storage, andnew directions.