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Introduction to Distributed Database Systems




A distributed database appears to a user as a single database but is, in fact, a set of databases stored on multiple computers. The data on several computers can be simultaneously accessed and modified using a network. Each database server in the distributed database is controlled by its local DBMS, and each cooperates to maintain [...]



Introduction to Multimedia Databases




Multimedia data typically means digital images, audio, video, animation and graphics together with text data. The acquisition, generation, storage and processing of multimedia data in computers and transmission over networks have grown tremendously in the recent past. Multimedia data are blessed with a number of exciting features. They can provide more effective dissemination of information [...]



Data Mining as a part of Knowledge Discovery Process




Knowledge discovery in databases typically encompasses more than data mining. The knowledge discovery process comprises six phases : data selection, data cleansing, enrichment, data transformation or encoding, data mining and the reporting and display of the discovered information. Data mining addresses inductive knowledge. Knowledge can be represented in an unstructured sense, it can be represented [...]



Stages and Goals of Data Mining




Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data (usually large amounts of data – typically business or market related) in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data. The process of data mining consists of three [...]