Recent years have witnessed giant leaps in the strength of database technologies, creating a new level of capability to develop advanced applications that add value at unprecedented levels in all areas of information management and utilization. Parallel to this evolution is a need in the academia and industry for authoritative references to the research in this area, to establish a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable the information technology and managerial communities to realize maximum benefits from these innovations.

Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development presents cutting-edge research and analysis of the most recent advancements in the fields of database systems and software development. This book provides academicians, researchers, and database practitioners with an exhaustive collection of studies that, together, represent the state of knowledge in the field.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Actor Network Theory
Code Reuse and Refactoring
Complex Adaptive Systems
Data Warehouses
Database Applications
Decision Trees
Domain Applications
Integrity Constraint Checking
IT Convergence Services
Knowledge Discovery
Location-Based Mobile Commerce
Multi-Dimensional Queries
Requirements Elicitation Technique Selection
Retrieval Optimization
Semantic Integration
Semantic Integrity Constraint
Semantic Web
Server-Based Repositories
Software Development
XML Databases

Reviews & Statements

This book represents the top research in the areas of database theory, systems building, data analysis techniques, web/mobile commerce and middleware, and organization and structures.

– John Erickson, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Siau and Erickson present this text for professionals and advanced students in library-centered computer science on the issues, methods, and theories involved in the provision of electronic resources in libraries.

– Book News Inc. (March 2009)

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Read Keng Siau's bio at: https://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/staff/klsiau/.

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.

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Associate Editors

Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Special Assistants to the Editor

Yee Ling Tan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Kejia Liew, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Editorial Review Board Members

Frederic Adam, University College Cork, Ireland

Gediminas Adomavicius, University of Minnesota, USA

Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina—Charlotte, USA

Gove Allen, Tulane University, USA

Haldun Aytug, University of Florida, USA

Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA

K. Suzanne Barber, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Indranil Bose, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Paul L. Bowen, Florida State University, USA

Sjaak Brinkkemper, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Glenn J. Browne, Texas Tech University, USA

Andrew Burton-Jones, University of British Columbia, Canada

Phil Chan, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Minder Chen, George Mason University, USA

Robert Chiang, University of Connecticut, USA

Cecil Chua Eng Huang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sidney Davis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Brian Dobing, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Suzanne M. Embury, The University of Manchester, UK

John Erickson, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Ming Fan, University of Washington Business School, USA

Shankar Ganesan, Boston University, USA

Andrew Gemino, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Ram D. Gopal, University of Connecticut , USA

Severin Grabski, Michigan State University , USA

Peter F. Green, University of Queensland, Australia

Shirley Gregor, Australian National University, Australia

Bill Hardgrave, University of Arkansas, USA

Alexander Hars, Inventivio GmbH, Germany

Stephen C. Hayne, Colorado State University, USA

Weiyin Hong, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA

Wynne Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Wayne W. Huang, Ohio University, USA

Wei-Kuang Huang, University of Connecticut, USA

Chuck Kacmar, The University of Alabama, USA

David Kang, University of Cincinnati, USA

Karthik N. Kannan, Purdue University, USA

Steven Kelly, MetaCase Consulting, Finland

Julie E. Kendall, Rutgers University, USA

Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA

Hee-Woong Kim, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hyoung Joo Kim, Seoul National University, Korea

Taeha Kim, George Mason University, USA

John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Subodha Kumar, University of Washington Business School, USA

Michael Lang, National University of Ireland-Galway, Ireland

Thomas Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Yang Lee, Northeastern University, USA

Zoonky Lee, Yonsei University, Korea

Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany

Gondy Leroy, Claremont Graduate University, USA

Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Stephen W. Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA

Divakaran Liginlal, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Binshan Lin, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA

Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Vanessa Liu, New Jersey’s Science & Technology University, USA

Scott J. Lloyd, University of Rhode Island, USA

Yoanna Long, Colorado State University-Pueblo, USA

Paul Benjamin Lowry, Brigham Young University, USA

Ronald Maier, University of Regensburg, Germany

Ji-Ye Mao, Renmin University of China, China

Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA

Mukesh Mohania, I.B.M. India Research Lab, India

Wai Yin Mok, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA

Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, USA

Peter Axel Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

Briony Oates, University of Teesside, UK

Antoni Olive, Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya, Spain

Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway

Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida, USA

Jin Soo Park, Korea University, Korea

Jeff Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Praveen Pathak, University of Florida, USA

Barbara Pernici, Politecnics di Milano, Italy

Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium

Sandeep Purao, Penn State University, USA

Mike S. Raisinghani, Texas Woman’s University, USA

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Jacquelyn M. Rees, Purdue University, USA

Fiona Rohde, University of Queensland, Australia

Colette Rolland, Universite Paris 1 – Pantheon – Sorbonne, France

John R. Rose, The University of South Carolina, USA

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

Marcus A. Rothenberger, University of Nevada, USA

Rathindra Sarathy, Oklahoma State University, USA

Christoph Schlueter-Langdon, University of Southern California, USA

Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA

Graeme Shanks, Monash University, Australia

Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Choon Ling SIA, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Riyaz Sikora, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Israel Spiegler, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Jan Stage, Aalborg University, Denmark

Jan Stallaert, University of Connecticut, USA

Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic University, USA

Kian Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Xin Tan, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

Yong Tan, University of Washington, USA

David Tegarden, Virginia Tech, USA

Yuhong Tian, Washington University, USA

Heikki Topi, Bentley College, USA

Arvind K Tripathi, University of Washington Business School, USA

Dan Turk, Colorado State University, USA

Ramesh Venkataraman, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA

Wenli Wang, Touro University International, USA

Xiaoyang. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA

Chih-Ping Wei, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

John D. Wells, Washington State University, USA

Weidong Xia, University of Minnesota, USA

Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

Alec Yasinsac, Florida State University, USA

Benjamin Yen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Mun Y. Yi, University of South Carolina, USA

Wei T Yue, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Daniel Dajun Zeng, University of Arizona, USA

Dongsong Zhang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Han Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Zhongju (John) Zhang, University of Connecticut, USA

Ping Zhang, Syracuse University, USA

Huimin Zhao, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

J. Leon Zhao, The University of Arizona, USA

Bai Hua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University

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Shirley A. Becker, Florida Institute of Technology

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