Journal of Database Management articles from January 1999

Journal of Database Management archives from January 1999

Methodology of Schema Integration for New Database Applications: A Practitioner's Approach.(Technology Tutorial)
January 1, 1999... There has been a proliferation of databases in most organizations. These databases are created and managed by the various units of the organization for their own localized applications. Thus the global view of all the data that is being stored...

Processing Ill-defined Spatial Operators in Geographic Databases: A Common-sense Approach.(Technology Information)
January 1, 1999... In recent years, there has been a growing interest among spatial database researchers in studying the specification and implementation of certain imprecise or relativistic spatial operators such as "near," "far," "south-of," etc. An early...

Solving the Partitioning Problem in Database Design.(Technology Tutorial)
January 1, 1999... Response time of a database system is largely determined by the number of secondary disk accesses required to process database transactions. To minimize disk accesses, a database file should be structured in such a way as to closely match data...

Data Mining: New Arsenal For Strategic Decision-making.(Technology Information)
January 1, 1999... Sufi M. Nazem and Bongsik Shin University of Nebraska - Omaha During the early years of database management the contemporary wisdom was to store only 'useful data.' In large part, this philosophy was encouraged because of the then-limited...

Information Management and Lean Manufacturing.(Industry Trend or Event)(Interview)
January 1, 1999... An interview with Dr. Arlie Hall staff consultant and adjunct professor Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Interviewed by Anita Lee-Post, Associate Editor of Industry and Practice JDM:...

A Review of: LEO, The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer.(by Caminer, David)(Review)
January 1, 1999... A Review of: LEO, The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer by David Caminer, John Aris, Peter Hermon and Frank Land, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998 392 pages, $22.95, ISBN #: 0-07-009501-9 I couldn't sleep the other night,...