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  Using slice join for efficient evaluation of multi-way joins
Lawrence R.  Data & Knowledge Engineering 67(1): 118-139, 2008. Type: Article

Developing efficient join processing algorithms is of critical importance because joins are an expensive operation. Multi-way joins can usually be performed more efficiently than the corresponding set of binary joins. On the other hand, early...

Jan 7 2009
  The last lecture
Pausch R., Zaslow J.,  Hyperion, 2008. 224 pp. Type: Book, Reviews: (2 of 2)

In his last lecture, Randy Pausch--a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University--delivers a powerful, inspirational message. This phenomenal work captures his childhood dreams,...

Jan 7 2009
  Data visualization: principles and practice
Telea A.,  A. K. Peters, Ltd., 2007. 460 pp. Type: Book

Many application packages and programming languages provide some graphic capabilities to view results of data processing. Often enough, this is for standard needs, but data visualization is something more, and Telea’s book proves it: data...

Jan 7 2009
  Sets, logic and maths for computing
Makinson D.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 304 pp. Type: Book

According to the author, the purpose of this book is:...

Jan 7 2009
  A data integration method for exploring gene regulatory mechanisms
Synnergren J., Olsson B., Gamalielsson J.  Data and text mining in bioinformatics (Proceeding of the 2nd International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics, Napa Valley, California,  Oct 30, 2008) 81-84, 2008. Type: Proceedings

The problem of understanding the behavior of the constituting components of living beings is of great interest. Many steps forward have been taken in this direction, but most of the “cellular intelligence” is still being ignored by...

Jan 7 2009
  Pillars of computer science: essays dedicated to Boris (Boaz) Trakhtenbrot on the occasion of his 85th birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4800)
Avron A., Dershowitz N., Rabinovich A.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 683 pp. Type: Book

This festschrift is dedicated to Boris Trakhtenbrot on the occasion of his 85th birthday. It contains a valuable paper by Trakhtenbrot himself, which narrates the work in his thesis (the now-famous theorem of 1950 that validity of first-order...

Jan 6 2009
  DCER: sharing empirical computer science education data
Sanders K., Richards B., Moström J., Almstrum V., Edwards S., Fincher S., Gunion K., Hall M., Hanks B., Lonergan S., McCartney R., Morrison B., Spacco J., Thomas L.  Computing education research (Proceeding of the Fourth International Workshop on Computing Education Research, Sydney, Australia,  Sep 6-7, 2008) 137-148, 2008. Type: Proceedings

The paper reports the results of a one-day workshop that examined a number of issues involved in setting up a computer science education (CSEd) research data depository to enable data sharing amongst the CSEd research community. Sanders et al....

Jan 6 2009
  Innovation together: Microsoft Research Asia academic research collaboration
Song L.,  Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 222 pp. Type: Book

This work coincides with Microsoft Corporation marking the tenth anniversary of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), its largest research and development facility outside of the US. The anniversary recognizes through Innovation Day in Beijing that the ...

Jan 6 2009
  A second course in formal languages and automata theory
Shallit J.,  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2008. 260 pp. Type: Book

Bucking the trend to “dumb down” content, to make textbooks more broadly accessible for a first-level course, this book is a very welcome effort to woo interested students back to the joys and challenges of more mathematically...

Jan 6 2009
  Homomorphism preservation theorems
Rossman B.  Journal of the ACM 55(3): 1-53, 2008. Type: Article

Model theory is the abstract study of mathematical structures that satisfy axioms stated using a first-order logic. A general question that is investigated in model theory is whether a property of a structure, expressed as logical sentences, is...

Jan 6 2009
 
 
 
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