The paper puts information systems (IS) research dealing with IS problems into perspective.
IS problems are surveyed and classified. Using the IS research framework suggested by …

Traditionally, real-time systems manage their data (eg chamber temperature, aircraft
locations) in application dependent structures. As real-time systems evolve, their …

A classic introduction to artificial intelligence intended to bridge the gap between theory and
practice, Principles of Artificial Intelligence describes fundamental AI ideas that underlie …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

We have expanded that coverage and have added material on algorithms for external
storage and memory management. As a consequence, this book should be suitable as a text …

During the last three or four years several investigators have been exploring “semantic
models” for formatted databases. The intent is to capture (in a more or less formal way) more …

This paper presents a planning formalism called ADL for representing and reasoning about
the effects of actions. ADL integrates the semantics and much of the expressive power of the …

This book presents a Paninian perspective towards natural language processing. It has
three objectives:(1) to introduce the reader to NLP,(2) to introduce the reader to Paninian …

This paper addresses the vertical partitioning of a set of logical records or a relation into
fragments. The rationale behind vertical partitioning is to produce fragments, groups of …