Information organization and databases. Foundations of data organization (Q2710190)

With the increasing use of the inter- and intranet, it becomes essential to find adequate manners to organize, the huge amounts of information which could be available to a broad range of users. Moreover the information should be retrievable in a user-friendly way and with an acceptable performance. The multimedia, semistructured and spatio-temporal nature of a considerable part of that ``web-based'' information increases the complexity of this challenging task.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book ``Information Organization and Databases -- foundation of data organization'' deals with this challenge.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt publishes the reviewed contributions and some invited articles to the 5th International Conference of Foundations of Data Organization (FODO'98), held in Kobe, Japan in November 12-13, 1998.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe content of the book is organized as follows: Part I, Introduction: Information, organization and databases. Part II, Semistructured Data: Semistructured data and XML, Entity-oriented queries, Path existence constraints in OO databases. Part III, Multimedia Database Organization: Organization of video data based on semantic representation by conceptual clustering, Efficient retrieval of similar time series. An efficient data structure for storing similar binary images. Part IV, Multimedia Database Environment: Managing parallel disks for continuous media data, MWWD: A module-based workbench for multimedia database. Part V. Data Mining and Data Warehousing: Kohonen's self-organizing maps in contextual analysis of data. Knowledge discovery using web bags in a web warehouse, Knowledge discovery by logical resolution with usefulness measure, Database compression with data mining methods, Conceptual OLAP. Part VI, Indexing and Query Processing: Approximate query processing model for mobile computing, A mechanism of structural index hierarchy for efficient complex object retrieval, Optimal object descriptor caching in temporal object database systems, Power conserving and access efficient indexes for wireless computing. Part VII, Spatial Data Access \& Indexing: Spatial indexing by virtual bounding rectangles for high-dimensional data, PK-tree: A spatial index structure for high-dimensional point data, HQT\(^*\): A scalable distributed data structure for high-performance spatial accesses, data declustering and cluster ordering techniques for spatial join scheduling. Part VIII, WWW and Hypermedia: Augmented Hypermedia: System integration and usability, converting the syntactic structures of hierarchical data to their semantic structures, Agent-based processing of navigational queries in INFOWEAVER, PowerBookmarks: An advanced web bookmark database system and its information sharing and management.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe contents of the book is given here in detail due to the character of a conference book with its different approaches to, and views on, a particular theme. In any case, the book gives a very good impression on recent research activities and connected developments to the broad theme ``information organization''. Thus, the book is recommended to researchers in this field in the first place. However, it also gives a good impression on recent research approaches to the practitioner, too.