books by Gerhard Weikum (distributed information concurrency)

books by Gerhard Weikum

books:

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems

Springer, 1997

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Parallel and Distributed Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Intelligent Search on XML Data: Applications, Languages, Models, Implementations, and Benchmarks (Lecture ...

Springer, 2003

Recently, we have seen a steep increase in the popularity and adoption of XML, in areas such as traditional databases, e-business, the scientific environment, and on the web. Querying XML documents and data efficiently is a challenging issue; this book approaches search on XML data by combining content-based methods from information retrieval and structure-based XML query methods and presents the following parts: applications, query languages, ...

Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control (The Morgan ...

4 reviews
Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen

Morgan Kaufmann, 2001

Up-to-date ... sends an old friend into semi-retirement
Before this book was published my primary reference and personal favorite TP book was "Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques" by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter. At over 1100 pages that book thoroughly covered the basics and drilled down into the nuances of transaction processing in a way unmatched by other books on the topic since it was first published in 1993. This book changes that by ...