Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77 or Readings in Database Systems 4th Edition

Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77: Volume 1, Volume 1 of Fortran Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing

Author: William Press

This is the greatly revised and greatly expanded Second Edition of the hugely popular Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. The product of a unique collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry Numerical Recipes is a complete text and reference book on scientific computing. In a self-contained manner it proceeds from mathematical and theoretical considerations to actual practical computer routines. With over 100 new routines bringing the total to well over 300, plus upgraded versions of the original routines, this new edition remains the most practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing available today. Highlights of the new material include: -A new chapter on integral equations and inverse methods -Multigrid and other methods for solving partial differential equations -Improved random number routines - Wavelet transforms-The statistical bootstrap method -A new chapter on "less-numerical" algorithms including compression coding and arbitrary precision arithmetic. The book retains the informal easy-to-read style that made the first edition so popular, while introducing some more advanced topics. It is an ideal textbook for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone who works in scientific computing. The Second Edition is availabe in FORTRAN, the traditional language for numerical calculations and in the increasingly popular C language.

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Readings in Database Systems, 4th Edition

Author: Joseph M Hellerstein

Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields ranging from bioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in industrial uses including Web-based e-commerce and search engines. The core ideas in the field have become increasingly influential. This text provides both students and professionals with a grounding in database research and a technical context for understanding recent innovations in the field. The readings included treat the most important issues in the database area -- the basic material for any DBMS professional.

This fourth edition has been substantially updated and revised, with 21 of the 48 papers new to the edition, four of them published for the first time. Many of the sections have been newly organized, and each section includes a new or substantially revised introduction that discusses the context, motivation, and controversies in a particular area, placing it in the broader perspective of database research. Two introductory articles, never before published, provide an organized, current introduction to basic knowledge of the field; one discusses the history of data models and query languages and the other offers an architectural overview of a database system. The remaining articles range from the classical literature on database research to treatments of current hot topics, including a paper on search engine architecture and a paper on application servers, both written expressly for this edition. The result is a collection of papers that are seminal and also accessible to a reader who has a basic familiarity with database systems.

Table of Contents:

	What goes around comes around	2
	Anatomy of a database system	42
	Access path selection in a relational database management system	103
	Join processing in database systems with large main memories	115
	Parallel database systems : the future of high performance database systems	141
	Encapsulation of parallelism in the volcano query processing system	155
	AlphaSort : a RISC machine sort	165
	R optimizer validation and performance evaluation for distributed queries	175
	Mariposa : a wide-area distributed database system	186
	The R-tree : an efficient and robust access method for points and rectangles	207
	Operating system support for database management	217
	The five-minute rule ten years later, and other computer storage rules of thumb	224
	A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)	230
	Granularity of locks and degrees of consistency in a shared data base	244
	On optimistic methods for concurrency control	274
	Concurrency control performance modeling : alternatives and implications	288
	Efficient locking for concurrent operations on B-tress	334
	ARIES : a transaction recovery method supporting fine-granularity locking and partial rollbacks using write-ahead logging	355
	Transaction management in the R distributed database management system	424
	The dangers of replication and a solution	443
	Inclusion of new types in relational data base systems	459
	Generalized search trees for database systems	467
	Grammar-like functional rules for representing query optimization alternatives	479
	AutoAdmin "what-if" index analysis utility	492
	Applying model management to classical meta data problems	504
	Algorithms for creating indexes for very large tables without quiescing updates	516
	An overview of data warehousing and OLAP technology	532
	Improved query performance with variant indexes	542
	DataCube : a relational aggregation operator generalizing group-by, cross-tab, and sub-totals	554
	An array-based algorithm for simultaneous multidimensional aggregates	579
	Deriving production rules for incremental view maintenance	591
	Informix under CONTROL : online query processing	604
	DynaMat : a dynamic view management system for data warehouses	638
	BIRCH : an efficient data clustering method for very large databases	656
	SPRINT : a scalable parallel classifier for data mining	668
	Fast algorithms for mining association rules	680
	Efficient evaluation of queries with mining predicates	693
	Combining systems and databases : a search engine retrospective	711
	The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine	725
	The BINGO! system for information portal generation and expert web search	745
	Data management in application servers	757
	Querying semi-structured data	768
	DataGuides : enabling query formulation and optimization in semistructured databases	786
	NiagaraCQ : a scalable continuous query system for the internet databases	796
	Scalable trigger processing	814
	The design and implementation of a sequence database system	824
	Eddies : continuously adaptive query processing	836
	Retrospective on Aurora