Transactional Information Systems Weikum Vossen Hardback Morgan Kaufmann

Transactional Information SystemsTheory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery\nAuthor(s): Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United States\nImprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In\nISBN-13: 9781558605084, 978-1558605084\nSynopsis\nTransactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for controlling concurrent access by multiple clients, recovering from system failures, and coordinating distributed [url] authors emphasize formal models that are easily applied across fields, that promise to remain valid as current technologies evolve, and that lend themselves to generalization and extensi.