Object Management in Distributed Database Systems for Stationary and Mobile Computing Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction to Distributed Database Systems

   • Wujuan Lin, Bharadwaj Veeravalli

   Pages 1-13

3. Object Management Process, Issues and Application Examples

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   Pages 15-40

4. Competitive Analysis — Concepts and Solution Techniques

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   Pages 41-60

5. Object Management in Stationary Computing Environments

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   Pages 61-106

6. Object Management in Mobile Computing Environments

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   Pages 107-129

7. Object Management in Regular Network Topologies

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   Pages 131-142

8. Future Directions

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   Pages 143-148

9. Back Matter

   Pages 149-161

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N etwork-based computing domain unifies all best research efforts presented from single computer systems to networked systems to render overwhelming computational power for several modern day applications. Although this power is expected to grow with respect to time due to tech­ nological advancements, application requirements impose a continuous thrust on network utilization and on the resources to deliver supreme quality of service. Strictly speaking, network-based computing dornain has no confined scope and each element offers considerable challenges. Any modern day networked application strongly thrives on efficient data storage and management system, which is essentially a Database System. There have been nurnber of books-to-date in this domain that discuss fundamental principles of designing a database systern. Research in this dornain is now far matured and rnany researchers are venturing in this dornain continuously due to a wide variety of challenges posed. In this book, our dornain of interest is in exposing the underlying key challenges in designing algorithms to handle unpredictable requests that arrive at a Distributed Database System(DDBS) and evaluating their performance. These requests are otherwise called as on-line requests arriving at a system to process. Transactions in an on-line Banking service, Airline Reservation systern, Video-on-Demand systern, etc, are few examples of on-line requests.

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From the reviews of the first edition:

"The domain of interest in the book is to describe a theoretical tool and its applications on the management of distributed resources. … The book is written in a very readable style. It is recommended to graduate students, researchers and all those having interest in the DDBS area and related domains." (E. Kostolansky, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1054 (5), 2005)

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Wujuan Lin, Bharadwaj Veeravalli

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