Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 303 pages
• Published by: IGI Global August 29, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1599042282
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1599042282
• Book Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Description
New state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing and managing Web data have emerged due to the need for dealing with huge amounts of data which are circulated on the Web. Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies provides a thorough understanding of major issues, current practices, and the main ideas in the field of Web data management, helping readers to identify current and emerging issues, as well as future trends in this area. Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies presents a complete overview of important aspects related to Web data management practices, such as: Web mining, Web data clustering, and others. This book also covers an extensive range of topics, including related issues about Web mining, Web caching and replication, Web services, and the XML standard.

About The Author
Athena Vakali received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA (with a Fulbright scholarship) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 1997, she is a faculty member of the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has published several papers in international journals and conferences. Her research interests include storage subsystems performance, XML and multimedia data, management and data placement schemes. George Pallis graduated from the Department of Informatics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2001. Since November 2001, he is with the Dept. of Computer Science of University of Thessaloniki (Greece), studying towards his PhD. His current research interests include Web data caching, content distribution network, data mining and its applications mainly to Web data.