Download or read book Advances in Databases: Concepts, Systems and Applications written by Ramamohanarao Kotagiri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 1143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, held in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2007. Coverage includes query language and query optimization, data mining and knowledge discovery, P2P and grid-based data management, XML databases, database modeling and information retrieval, Web and information retrieval, database applications and security.