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Thomas, Stan
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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 Visual Studio condensed: for Visual Studio 2013 Express, Professional, Premium and Ultimate editions
Desjardins P., Apress, New York, NY, 2014. 260 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430268-24-6)
The cover describes this book as a “quick-reference guide to the features [of Visual Studio 2013] that matter most.” I found the material to be a useful introduction and reference guide for Visual Studio 2013; howev...
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Jan 28 2015 |
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A course in in-memory data management: the inner mechanics of in-memory databases
Plattner H., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 320 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642365-23-2)
I was attracted to this book by the title, expecting to learn general principles for utilizing in-memory database systems. Although the text includes such information, I found the subtitle a better description of the contents. Hence, I...
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Sep 6 2013 |
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Automated physical database design and tuning
Bruno N., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2011. 253 pp. Type: Book (978-1-439815-67-0)
Relational database performance tuning was probably a topic of discussion even before commercial relational databases were released some 30 years ago. In the past decade, database tuning has been the subject of numerous academic articl...
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Aug 17 2011 |
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A model for matching and integrating heterogeneous relational biomedical databases schemas
Karasneh Y., Ibrahim H., Othman M., Yaakob R. IDEAS 2009 (Proceedings of the 2009 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, Cetraro, Calabria, Italy, Sep 16-18, 2009) 242-250, 2009. Type: Proceedings
When working to integrate multiple database schemas, either to merge them or to enable queries across their federation, the desirability of automatic schema matching is apparent. Although schema matching and integration has been studie...
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Dec 24 2009 |
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Cellular neural networks and visual computing: foundations and applications
Chua L., Roska T., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2002. 396 pp. Type: Book (9780521652476), Reviews: (2 of 2)
The cellular neural network (CNN) architecture was introduced by Chua and Yang in 1988. At the core of this technology is an array of analog dynamic processors, or cells, that interact with their neighbors and the external world throu...
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Feb 11 2003 |
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Spatial databases with application to GIS
Rigaux P., Scholl M., Voisard A., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2002. 410 pp. Type: Book (9781558605886), Reviews: (1 of 2)
The stated objective of this book is to “identify the challenges raised by the peculiar nature of spatial information, and to describe the specific techniques recently developed to meet these novel requirements.” Th...
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Jun 4 2002 |
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Neural network design
Hagan M., Demuth H., Beale M., PWS Pub. Co., Boston, MA, 1996. Type: Book (9780534943325)
This introductory neural network text targets senior undergraduates, first-year graduate students, and computing professionals who are exploring artificial neural networks. In the authors’ words, “Emphasis is placed...
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Oct 1 1997 |
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Knowledge-based artificial neural networks
Towell G., Shavlik J. (ed) Artificial Intelligence 70(1-2): 119-165, 1994. Type: Article
In addition to reporting on the authors’ KBANN hybrid learning system, this paper serves as a very readable introduction to this general area of research. In the words of the authors, “Hybrid learning methods use th...
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Nov 1 1995 |
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Simple conditions for guaranteeing higher normal forms in relational databases
Date C., Fagin R. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 17(3): 465-476, 1992. Type: Article
The hierarchy of normal forms for schema design by decomposition using only projection and join was completed by Fagin in 1979 with his description of projection-join normal form (PJ/NF, also called 5NF) [1]. More than a decade later, ...
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Jun 1 1993 |
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