Oxford Handbook of Innovation or Database Systems

Oxford Handbook of Innovation

Author: Jan Fagerberg

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation.
Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of this literature can be missed, and so constructive dialogues missed.
The editors of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field, each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular focus on firms and networks. Section Two provides an account of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and the role of institutions and organizations in this context. Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences of innovation with respect to economic growth, international competitiveness, and employment.
An introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.

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Database Systems: An Application-Oriented Approach

Author: Michael Kifer

Database Systems: An Application Oriented Approach, Complete Version, Second Edition presents the principles underlying the design and implementation of databases and database applications, covering Object Databases, Security, XML and Data Mining and Web Services topics.  

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Introduction	1
1	Overview of databases and transactions	3
2	The big picture	13
Pt. 2	Database management	29
3	The relational data model	31
4	Conceptual modeling of databases with entity-relationship diagrams and the unified modeling language	69
5	Relational algebra and SQL	127
6	Database design with the relational normalization theory	193
7	Triggers and active databases	251
8	Using SQL in an application	267
Pt. 3	Optimizing DBMS performance	319
9	Physical data organization and indexing	321
10	The basics of query processing	383
11	An overview of query optimization	409
12	Database tuning	433
Pt. 4	Advanced topics in databases	459
13	Relational calculus, visual query languages, and deductive databases	461
14	Object databases	515
15	XML and Web data	579
16	Distributed databases	687
17	OLAP and data mining	711
Pt. 5	Transaction processing	761
18	ACID properties of transactions	763
19	Models of transactions	777
20	Implementing isolation	813
21	Isolation in relational databases	869
22	Atomicity and durability	919
Pt. 6	Distributed applications and the Web	945
23	Architecture of transaction processing systems	947
24	Implementing distributed transactions	1005
25	Web services	1043
26	Security and electronic commerce	1135
App. A	An overview of transaction processing
App. B	Requirements and specifications
App. C	Design, coding, and testing