Scientific and Statistical Database Management - 20th International Conference, SSDBM 2008, Hong Kong, China, July 9-11, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)

TheInternationalConferenceonScienti?candStatisticalDatabaseManagement (SSDBM)isanestablishedforumfortheexchangeofthelatestresearchresultson concepts, tools, andtechniquesforscienti?candstatisticaldatabaseapplications. The2008meetingmarkedthe20thtimethatscienti?cdomainexperts, databases researchers, practitioners, and developers came together to share their new - sightsand to discuss ina stimulating environmentfuture researchdirections. This volume contains the proceedings of the 20th SSDBM Conference, held in Hong Kong, China, July 9-11,2008.The conference included 3 keynote talks, 28 long and 7 short papers in 9 sessions, and 8 posters and demonstrations in a single session. Distinguishedmembersofthe communitydeliveredthethree keynotes, which wereabout the past, present, and future managementof scienti?c and statistical data. Alex Szalay, an expert in large-scalescienti?c data management, discussed "New Challenges in Petascale Scienti?c Databases," managing huge scienti?c data repositories, with a focus on particular examples taken from astronomy. Nick Koudas, a leader in semi-structured text management, talked about "- ventures in the Blogosphere," a huge network of textual data (including blogs, social networks, wikis), and BlogScope, a system that collects and analyzes such data. Finally, Per Svensson, a pioneer in database systems development for s- enti?c applications, provided a historical review on "The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures" from the perspective and performance needs of a s- enti?c or statistical large-scale data analyst user. The Program Committee, consisting of 37 members, accepted 43 papers (28 long,7short, and8posters/demos)fromatotalof84submissions.Thereviewing process was managed by the EasyChair Conference System, an excellent free conference management system, developed by Andrei Voronkov.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, 5069
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	2008
Editors:	Bertram Ludascher • Nikos Mamoulis
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	620
Edition:	2008 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-69476-2
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Databases > Data mining
LSN:	3-540-69476-5
Barcode:	9783540694762

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