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Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems

  • 1st Edition - October 13, 1998
  • Editors: Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit Sheth
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 8 6 0 - 2 1 6 - 8
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 1 5 1 - 1

"As organizations have become more sophisticated, pressure to provide information sharing across dissimilar platforms has mounted. In addition, advances in distributed compu… Read more

Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems

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"As organizations have become more sophisticated, pressure to provide information sharing across dissimilar platforms has mounted. In addition, advances in distributed computing and networking combined with the affordable high level of connectivity, are making information sharing across databases closer to being accomplished...With the advent of the internet, intranets, and affordable network connectivity, business reengineering has become a necessity for modern corporations to stay competitive in the global market...An end-user in a heterogeneous computing environment should be able to not only invoke multiple exiting software systems and hardware devices, but also coordinate their interactions."--From the Introduction

Seventeen leaders in the field contributed chapters specifically for this unique book, together providing the most comprehensive resource on managing multidatabase systems involving heterogeneous and autonomous databases available today. The book covers virtually all fundamental issues, concepts, and major research topics.