Special issue on database theory

Special issue on database theory

This issue of the JCSS contains seven invited papers on database theory. The papers are representative of the latest and most promising research on advancing the state of the art in data management. The following process was used. First, eight papers were carefully selected from among the best research projects published in the top data management conferences during the first half of 2005 (the ...

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Special Issue on Data Management beyond Database Systems

We describe the power and potential of data journalism, where news stories are reported and published with data and dynamic visualizations. We discuss the challenges facing data journalism today and how recent data management tools such as Google Fusion Tables have helped in the newsroom. We then describe some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order for data journalism to reach its...

Special Issue on Testing and Tuning of Database Systems

Tuning database system configuration parameters to proper values according to the expected query workload plays a very important role in determining DBMS performance. However, the number of configuration parameters in a DBMS is very large. Furthermore, typical query workloads have a large number of constituent queries, which makes tuning very time and effort intensive. To reduce tuning time and...

Special issue algebraic coding theory and applications

This issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation is a follow-up to the “Soria Summer School on Computational Mathematics: Algebraic Coding Theory” supported by the group SINGACOM of the University of Valladolid, held at the Campus Duques de Soria of the University of Valladolid in Soria, July 2-11, 2008 and the Special Session “Computer Algebra and Coding Theory 2008”, hosted at ACA 2008 held ...