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McGee, William
IBM
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  Cyberarts 2001: international compendium Prix Ars Electronica
Leopoldseder H., Schöpf C., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 2001. 246 pp.  Type: Book (9783211836286)

Prix Ars Electronica is an international competition for creative work in cyberarts or digital media design. The competition, which is sponsored by the Austrian broadcasting company, has been held annually since 1987. This book is a re...

May 7 2002  
  An interface for melody input
Prechelt L., Typke R. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 8(2): 133-149, 2001.  Type: Article

The work described here is an attempt to broaden the human-computer interface to include computer recognition of melodies sounded by people. The authors describe their system, Tuneserver, which accepts whistled melodies and returns lis...

Aug 1 2001  
  Database management and design (2nd ed.)
Hansen G. (ed), Hansen J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996.  Type: Book (9780133088007)

Like the first edition [1], this introductory database text is organized loosely around the system development life cycle. Part 1 defines databases and database systems (the authors’ term for information systems) and places t...

May 1 1997  
  Abstract data types
Dale N., Walker H., D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1996.  Type: Book (9780689400001)

Abstract data types (ADTs) are an important and well-established programming discipline on which much current software, including object-oriented programs, is based. This text uses abstract data types to teach abstraction, computationa...

Feb 1 1997  
  Context-specific synchronization for atomic data types in object-based databases
Wong M., Agrawal D. Theoretical Computer Science 149(1): 179-199, 1995.  Type: Article

The concurrency control protocol described in this paper is an extension of that described by Weihl [1]. The purpose of Weihl’s work was to study the interaction between concurrency control and recovery. Recovery was recogniz...

Sep 1 1996  
  Windows multi-DBMS programming
North K., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1995.  Type: Book (9780471016762)

A multidatabase application accesses multiple heterogeneous databases, either one at a time or concurrently. This book describes software products currently available for developing multidatabase applications running under Windows, eit...

Aug 1 1996  
  Objects and databases
Kroha P., McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.  Type: Book (9780077077907)

Object databases represent the confluence of two major computer technology streams: object-oriented programming and database management. To provide facilities for creating and accessing object databases, a new breed of software has eme...

Aug 1 1995  
  Relative serializability (extended abstract): an approach for relaxing the atomicity of transactions
Agrawal D., Bruno J., El Abbadi A., Krishnaswamy V.  Principles of database systems (Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, May 24-27, 1994) 139-149, 1994.  Type: Proceedings

The relative atomicity model of transaction processing is a technique for exploiting knowledge of application semantics to increase the number of correct schedules that are possible with a given set of transactions, and thus to increas...

Aug 1 1995  
  Object-oriented database design
Brathwaite K., Academic Press Prof., Inc., San Diego, CA, 1993.  Type: Book (9780121258825)

Object databases represent the confluence of two major computer technology streams: object-oriented programming and database management. To provide facilities for creating and accessing object databases, a new breed of software has eme...

Aug 1 1995  
  Object databases
Loomis M., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1995.  Type: Book (9780201563412)

Object databases represent the confluence of two major computer technology streams: object-oriented programming and database management. To provide facilities for creating and accessing object databases, a new breed of software has eme...

Aug 1 1995  
 
 
 
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