Advances in Database Research (ADR) Book Series

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Mission

The Advances in Database Research (ADR) Book Series aims to publish research volumes on all aspects of database management, systems analysis and design, and software engineering. The Advances in Database Research series presents the latest research ideas and topics on how to enhance current database systems, improve information storage, refine existing database models, and develop advanced applications. It provides insights into important developments in the field of database and database management.

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Topics Covered

The Advances in Database Research (ADR) Book Series provides a scholarly outlet for breaking research in the field of database technologies and database management. Potential editors and authors are encouraged to submit emerging topics and principles for the betterment of this discipline.
Topics of interest to the series include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Agile systems development

Bio-informatics

Geo-informatics

Component engineering

Data warehousing and data mining

Database models and query languages

Database security and integrity

Database support for virtual team and mobile collaboration

Domain-driven development

E-business and m-commerce models and architectures

Empirical software engineering

Enterprise systems and supply chain integration

Extreme modeling and extreme programming

Heterogeneous and distributed database

Information modeling and requirements engineering

Intelligent agents and agent-based applications

Knowledge engineering and management

Method Engineering and metamodeling

Object oriented methods and methodologies

Semantic web and ontology

Unified modeling language and unified process

Web database and web-based information systems

Web design methods and methodologies

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Editorial Advisory Board

Advances in Database Research (ADR) Book SeriesEditors-in-Chief: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA John Erickson, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USAInternational Editorial Advisory Board: David Avison, ESSEC Business School, France Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, USA Hock Chuan Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Guy Fitzgerald, Brunel University, UK Joey George, Florida State University, USA Alan R. Hevner, University of South Florida, USA Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas – Austin, USA Wei Kwok Kee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Peri Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA Salvatore March, Vanderbilt University, USA Rossi Matti, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA Colette Rolland, Université Paris1, France Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Iris Vessey, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia Vladimir Zwass, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

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Author(s)/Editor(s) Biography

Keng Siau
Keng Siau is the E. J. Faulkner Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) and Full Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He is the Director of the UNL-IBM Global Innovation Hub, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Database Management, North America Regional Editor of the Requirements Engineering journal and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Advances in Database Research series. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia. Professor Siau has over 250 academic publications. He has published more than 100 refereed journal articles and these articles have appeared in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and others. He received the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award in 2006 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2006 and 2008.

John Erickson
John Erickson is an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His research interests include UML, software complexity and Systems Analysis and design issues. He has published in journals such as the CACM, JDM and in conferences such as AMICIS, ICIS WITS, EMMSAD and CAiSE. He has also co-authored several book chapters.