Nontraditional Database Systems (Advanced information processing technology v. 5)

nontraditional Database Systems Is The Fifth Volume In The Advanced Information Processing Technology Series. It Brings Together The Results Of Research Carried Out By The Japanese Database Research Community In The Field Of Nontraditional Database Systems. The Book Examines Nontraditional Types Of Applications, Data Types, Systems And Environments Together With High-performance Architecture To Support Nontraditional Applications, Such As Web Mining, Data Engineering And Object Processing. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 1 A New Database Technology for Cyberspace Applications......Page 20 2 A Spatial Data Management Method......Page 34 3 Database Support for Cooperative Work......Page 49 4 Broadcasting and Databases......Page 66 5 Multimedia Database Systems Approaching Human Impression (“Kansei”)......Page 82 6 Heijo—A Video Database System......Page 100 7 Mediator-based Modeling of Real World’s Objects and their motions......Page 112 8 Spatio-temporal Browsing for Video Databases......Page 133 9 GIS in Japan: Developments and Applications......Page 149 10 Management of Heterogeneous Documents......Page 165 11 XML Databases......Page 185 12 Construction of Web Structures from Heterogeneous Information Sources......Page 200 13 Parallel Execution of SQL Based Association Rule Mining......Page 216 14 Secondary Storage Configurations......Page 231 15 Issues on Parallel Processing of Object Databases......Page 250 Index......Page 268 In this study, we introduce a virtual world database system called "VWDB," which is currently under development at Ochanomizu University with the aim of creating a new generation database system for the cyberspace age. Presents a collection of research papers focusing on non-traditional databases, covering such topics as cyberspace database systems, multimedia and continuous media, and spatio-temporal database systems.