Scientific and Statistical Database Management (Ssdbm 2001): Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (13th: 2001: Fairfax, VA)

Overview

Comprising 29 papers, posters, discussions, and tutorials, these proceedings of the July 2001 conference (held in Fairfax, Virginia) represent the work of economists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and other researchers from around the world. Paper topics include: statistical databases; index structures for SSDBM; data mining and OLAP; query processing, optimization, and constraints; clustering techniques; system architectures and methods; and performance of spatio-temporal data structures. Posters and demos cover approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications, an XML-based distributed metadata server, integrating distributed data sources, object-oriented database systems, content-based browsing, and information systems for distillation data farming. Author index only.

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