Journal of Database Management articles from January 2001

Journal of Database Management archives from January 2001

Editorial Preface.(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... It is with much excitement that I accepted the Editor-in-Chief position of JDM. Shirley Becker, the former Editor-in-Chief of JDM, decided to step down after having done a great job for the journal. Her leadership and inspiration will surely be...

Object-Process Methodology Applied to Modeling Credit Card Transactions.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... Object-Process Methodology (OPM) is a system development and specification approach that combines the major system aspects - function, structure and behavior - within a single graphic and textual model. Having applied OPM in a variety of...

FOOM: Functional- and Object-Oriented Analysis & Design of Information Systems: An Integrated Methodology.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... We propose FOOM (Functional and Object-Oriented Methodology), an integrated methodology for information systems analysis and design, which combines two essential software-engineering paradigms: the functional/data approach (or process-oriented)...

Unified Modeling Language (UML) -- A Complexity Analysis.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... Unified Modeling Language (UML) has emerged as the software industry's dominant modeling language. It is the de facto modeling language standard for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the components of software systems....

Incremental Data Allocation and ReAllocation in Distributed Database Systems.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... In a distributed database system, an increase in workload typically necessitates the installation of additional database servers followed by the implementation of expensive data reorganization strategies. We present the Partial REALLOCATE and...

Intelligent Agents and the World Wide Web: Fact or Fiction?(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... We are fortunate to be experiencing an explosive growth and advancement in the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). In 1999, the global online population was estimated to be 250 million WWW users worldwide, while the "/...

Database Systems: Concepts, Languages and Architectures.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Database Systems: Concepts, Languages and Architectures, by Paolo Atzeni, Stefano Ceri, Stefano Paraboschi and Riccardo Torlone, The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1999, 612 pages; 27.99 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 007-709500-6 This book...