Nontraditional Database Systems

Nontraditional Database Systems is the fifth volume in the Advanced Information Processing Technology series. It brings together the results of research carried out by the Japanese database research community in the field of nontraditional database systems. The book examines nontraditional types of applications, data types, systems and environments together with high-performance architecture to support nontraditional applications, such as web mining, data engineering and object processing. Sections include cyber space database systems, multimedia and continuous media, spatio-temporal database systems, web/document data management, and high performance systems for nontraditional applications.