Journal of Database Management articles from April 2005

Journal of Database Management archives from April 2005

Editorial preface: supporting knowledge management in organizations with conversational technologies: discussion forums, weblogs, and wikis.
April 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The article reviews requirements and tool availability for knowledge management in virtual communities and other knowledge sharing environments, where professionals wish to quickly and easily share knowledge and information. The...

Experimental study of a self-tuning algorithm for DBMS buffer pools.(database management system)
April 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The tasks of configuring and tuning large database management systems (DBMSs) have always been both complex and time-consuming. They require knowledge of the characteristics of the system, the data, and the workload, and of the...

Evaluating the dynamic behavior of database applications.(research)
April 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper explores the effect that changing access patterns has on the performance of database management systems. Changes in access patterns play an important role in determining the efficiency of key performance optimization...

Intelligent cache management for mobile data warehouse systems.(Research Note)
April 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This research proposes an intelligent cache mechanism for a data warehouse system in a mobile environment. Because mobile devices can often be disconnected from the host server and due to the low bandwidth of wireless networks, it...

A conceptual design methodology for fuzzy relational databases.(Research Note)(data modeling)
April 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Computer applications in the nontraditional area have put requirements on conceptual data modeling. Some conceptual data models, being the tools of design databases, have been proposed. However, information in real-world...

Conceptual data modeling patterns: representation and validation.(Research Note)
April 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The tremendous demand for software productivity has led to the idea of reuse of solutions that have worked successfully in the past. The notion of a design pattern is now well accepted in software design, and research in the area...