Information Organization and Databases: Foundations of DataOrganizationprovides recent developments of information organization technologies that have become crucial not only for data mining applications and information visualization, but also for treatment of semistructured data, spatio-temporal data and multimedia data that are not necessarily stored in conventional DBMSs. Information Organization and Databases: Foundations of Data Organization presents:semistructured data addressing XML, query languages and integrity constraints, focusing on advanced technologies for organizing web data for effective retrieval;multimedia database organization emphasizing video data organization and data structures for similarity retrieval;technologies for data mining and data warehousing;index organization and efficient query processing issues;spatial data access and indexing;organizing and retrieval of WWW and hypermedia. Information Organization and Databases: Foundations of DataOrganizationis a resource for database practitioners, database researchers, designers and administrators of multimedia information systems, and graduate-level students in the area of information retrieval and/or databases wishing to keep abreast of advances in the information organization technologies. | Information Organization and Databases by Katsumi Tanaka, Paperback | Indigo Chapters