Parallel and Distributed Information Systems

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.
Parallel and Distributed Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Autorentext
Gerhard Weikum is Professor of Computer Science at University of the Saarland in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he leads a research group on database and information systems. His research has focused on parallel and distributed information systems, transaction processing and workflow management, database optimization and performance evaluation, multimedia data management, and intelligent search on Web data.

Klappentext

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Parallel and Distributed Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Inhalt
Guest Editors' Introduction.- Consistency Algorithms for Multi-Source Warehouse View Maintenance.- Distributed Multi-Level Recovery in Main-Memory Databases.- Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems.