Encyclopedia of Database Systems

.NET Remoting.- Absolute Time.- Abstract Versus Concrete Temporal Query Languages.- Abstraction.- Access Control.- Access Control Administration Policies.- Access Control Policy Languages.- Access Path.- ACID Properties.- Active and Real-Time Data Warehousing.- Active Database Coupling Modes.- Active Database Execution Model.- Active Database Knowledge Model.- Active Database Management System Architecture.- Active Database Rulebase.- Active Database, Active Database (Management) System.- Active Storage.- Active XML.- Activity.- Activity Diagrams.- Actors/Agents/Roles.- Adaptive Interfaces.- Adaptive Middleware for Message Queuing Systems.- Adaptive Query Processing.- Adaptive Stream Processing.- ADBMS.- Administration Model for RBAC.- Administration Wizards.- Advanced Information Retrieval Measures.- Aggregation: Expressiveness and Containment.- Aggregation-Based Structured Text Retrieval.- Air Indexes for Spatial Databases.- AJAX.- Allen's Relations.- AMOSQL.- AMS Sketch.- Anchor Text.- Annotation.- Annotation-based Image Retrieval.- Anomaly Detection on Streams.- Anonymity.- ANSI/INCITS RBAC Standard.- Answering Queries Using Views.- Anti-monotone Constraints.- Applicability Period.- Application Benchmark.- Application Recovery.- Application Server.- Application-Level Tuning.- Applications of Emerging Patterns for Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis.- Applications of Sensor Network Data Management.- Approximate Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Approximate Query Processing.- Approximate Reasoning.- Approximation of Frequent Itemsets.- Apriori Property and Breadth-First Search Algorithms.- Architecture-Conscious Database System.- Archiving Experimental Data.- Armstrong Axioms.- Array Databases.- Array Databases_old.- Association Rule Mining on Streams.- Association Rules.- Asymmetric Encryption.- Atelic Data.- Atomic Event.- Atomicity.- Audio.- Audio Classification.- Audio Content Analysis.- Audio Metadata.- Audio Representation.- Audio Segmentation.- Auditing and Forensic Analysis.- Authentication.- Automatic Image Annotation.- Autonomous Replication.- Average Precision.- Average Precision at n.- Average Precision Histogram.- Average R-Precision.- B+-Tree.- Backup and Restore.- Bag Semantics.- Bagging.- Bayesian Classification.- Benchmark Frameworks.- Benchmarks for Big Data Analytics.- Big Data Platforms for Data Analytics.- Big Stream Systems.- Biological Metadata Management.- Biological Networks.- Biological Resource Discovery.- Biological Sequences.- Biomedical Data/Content Acquisition, Curation.- Biomedical Image Data Types and Processing.- Biomedical Scientific Textual Data Types and Processing.- Biostatistics and Data Analysis.- Bi-Temporal Indexing.- Bitemporal Interval.- Bitemporal Relation.- Bitmap Index.- Bitmap-based Index Structures.- Blind Signatures.- Bloom Filters.- BM25.- Boolean Model.- Boosting.- Bootstrap.- Boyce-Codd Normal Form.- BP-Completeness.- Bpref.- Browsing.- Browsing in Digital Libraries.- B-Tree Locking.- Buffer Management.- Buffer Manager.- Buffer Pool.- Business Intelligence.- Business Process Execution Language.- Business Process Management.- Business Process Modeling Notation.- Business Process Reengineering.- Cache-Conscious Query Processing.- Calendar.- Calendric System.- CAP Theorem.- Cardinal Direction Relationships.- Cartesian Product.- Cataloging in Digital Libraries.- Causal Consistency.- Certain (and Possible) Answers.- Change Detection on Streams.- Channel-Based Publish/Subscribe.- Chart.- Chase.- Checksum and Cyclic Redundancy Check Mechanism.- Choreography.- Chronon.- Citation.- Classification.- Classification by Association Rule Analysis.- Classification in Streams.- Client-Server Architecture.- Clinical Data Acquisition, Storage and Management.- Clinical Data and Information Models.- Clinical Data Quality and Validation.- Clinical Decision Support.- Clinical Document Architecture.- Clinical Event.- Clinical Knowledge Repository.- Clinical Observation.- Clinical Ontologies.- Clinical Order.- Closed Itemset Mining and Non-redundant Association Rule Mining.- Closest-Pair Query.- Cloud Computing.- Cloud Intelligence.- Cluster and Distance Measure.- Clustering for Post Hoc Information Retrieval.- Clustering on Streams.- Clustering Overview and Applications.- Clustering Validity.- Clustering with Constraints.- Collaborative Filtering.- Column Segmentation.- Column Stores.- Common Warehouse Metamodel.- Comparative Visualization.- Compensating Transactions.- Complex Event.- Complex Event Processing.- Composed Services and WS-BPEL.- Composite Event.- Composition.- Comprehensions.- Compression of Mobile Location Data.- Computational Media Aesthetics.- Computationally Complete Relational Query Languages.- Computerized Physician Order Entry.- Conceptual Modeling Foundations.- Conceptual Schema Design.- Concurrency Control - Traditional Approaches.- Concurrency Control for Replicated Databases.- Concurrency Control Manager.- Conditional Tables.- Conjunctive Query.- Connection.- Consistency Models For Replicated Data.- Consistent Query Answering.- Constraint Databases.- Constraint Query Languages.- Constraint-Driven Database Repair.- Content-and-Structure Query.- Content-Based Publish/Subscribe.- Content-Based Video Retrieval.- Content-Only Query.- Context.- Contextualization in Structured Text Retrieval.- Continuous Data Protection.- Continuous Monitoring of Spatial Queries.- Continuous Multimedia Data Retrieval.- Continuous Queries in Sensor Networks.- Continuous Query.- ConTract.- Control Data.- Convertible Constraints.- Coordination.- Copyright Issues in Databases.- CORBA.- Correctness Criteria Beyond Serializability.- Cost and quality trade-offs in crowdsourcing.- Cost Estimation.- Count-Min Sketch.- Coupling and De-coupling.- Covering Index.- Crash Recovery.- Cross-Language Mining and Retrieval.- Cross-Modal Multimedia Information Retrieval.- Cross-Validation.- Crowd Database Operators.- Crowd Database Systems.- Crowd Mining and Analysis.- Crowdsourcing Geographic Information Systems.- Cube.- Cube Implementations.- Current Semantics.- Curse of Dimensionality.- Daplex.- Data Acquisition and Dissemination in Sensor Networks.- Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks.- Data Broadcasting, Caching and Replication in Mobile Computing.- Data Cleaning.- Data Compression in Sensor Networks.- Data Conflicts.- Data Definition.- Data Definition Language (DDL).- Data Dictionary.- Data Encryption.- Data Estimation in Sensor Networks.- Data Exchange.- Data Fusion.- Data Fusion in Sensor Networks.- Data Generation.- Data Governance.- Data Integration Architectures and Methodology for the Life Sciences.- Data Integration in Web Data Extraction System.- Data Management for VANETs.- Data Management Fundamentals: Database Management System.- Data Management in Data Centers.- Data Manipulation.- Data Manipulation Language (DML).- Data Mart.- Data Migration Management.- Data Mining.- Data Partitioning.- Data Privacy and Patient Consent.- Data Profiling.- Data Provenance.- Data Quality Assessment.- Data Quality Dimensions.- Data Quality Models.- Data Rank/Swapping.- Data Reduction.- Data Replication.- Data Sampling.- Data Scrubbing.- Data Sketch/Synopsis.- Data Skew.- Data Storage and Indexing in Sensor Networks.- Data Stream.- Data Stream Management Architectures and Prototypes.- Data Types in Scientific Data Management.- Data Uncertainty Management in Sensor Networks.- Data Visualization.- Data Warehouse.- Data Warehouse Life-Cycle and Design.- Data Warehouse Maintenance, Evolution and Versioning.- Data Warehouse Metadata.- Data Warehouse Security.- Data Warehousing for Clinical Research.- Data Warehousing in Cloud Environments.- Data Warehousing on Non-Conventional Data.- Data Warehousing Systems: Foundations and Architectures.- Data, Text, and Web Mining in Healthcare.- Database.- Database Adapter and Connector.- Database Administrator (DBA).- Database Appliances.- Database Benchmarks.- Database Clustering Methods.- Database Clusters.- Database Dependencies.- Database Design.- Database Languages for Sensor Networks.- Database Machine.- Database Management System.- Database Middleware.- Database Repair.- Database Reverse Engineering.- Database Schema.- Database Security.- Database System.- Database Techniques to Improve Scientific Simulations.- Database Trigger.- Database Tuning using Combinatorial Search.- Database Tuning using Online Algorithms.- Database Tuning using Trade-off Elimination.- Database Use in Science Applications.- Datalog.- DBMS Component.- DBMS Interface.- DCE.- DCOM.- Decay Models.- Decision Rule Mining in Rough Set Theory.- Decision Tree Classification.- Decision Trees.- Declarative Networking.- Deductive Data Mining using Granular Computing.- Deduplication.- Deduplication in Data Cleaning.- Deep Instantiation.- Deep-Web Search.- Dense Index.- Dense Pixel Displays.- Density-based Clustering.- Description Logics.- Design for Data Quality.- Dewey Decimal System.- Diagram.- Difference.- Differential Privacy.- Digital Archives and Preservation.- Digital Curation.- Digital Elevation Models.- Digital Libraries.- Digital Rights Management.- Digital Signatures.- Dimension.- Dimension Reduction Techniques for Clustering.- Dimensionality Reduction.- Dimensionality Reduction Techniques For Nearest Neighbor Computations.- Dimension-Extended Topological Relationships.- Direct Attached Storage.- Direct Manipulation.- Disaster Recovery.- Disclosure Risk.- Discounted Cumulated Gain.- Discovery.- Discrete Wavelet Transform and Wavelet Synopses.- Discretionary Access Control.- Disk.- Disk Power Saving.- Distortion Techniques.- Distributed Architecture.- Distributed Concurrency Control.- Distributed Data Streams.- Distributed Database Design.- Distributed Database Systems.- Distributed DBMS.- Distributed Deadlock Management.- Distributed File Systems.- Distributed Hash Table.- Distributed Join.- Distributed Machine Learning.- Distributed Query Optimization.- Distributed Query Processing.- Distributed Recovery.- Distributed Spatial Databases.- Distributed Transaction Management.- Divergence from Randomness Models.- D-measure.- Document.- Document Clustering.- Document Databases.- Document Field.- Document Length Normalization.- Document Links and Hyperlinks.- Document Representations (Inclusive Native and Relational).- Dublin Core.- Dynamic Graphics.- Dynamic Web Pages.- eAccessibility.- ECA Rule Action.- ECA Rule Condition.- ECA Rules.- e-Commerce Transactions.- Effectiveness Involving Multiple Queries.- Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Games.- Elasticity.- Electronic Dictionary.- Electronic Encyclopedia.- Electronic Health Record.- Electronic Ink Indexing.- Electronic Newspapers.- Eleven Point Precision-recall Curve.- Emergent Semantics.- Emerging Pattern Based Classification.- Emerging Patterns.- Energy Efficiency in Data Centers.- Ensemble.- Enterprise Application Integration.- Enterprise Content Management.- Enterprise Service Bus.- Enterprise Terminology Services.- Entity Relationship Model.- Entity Resolution.- Entity Retrieval.- Equality-Generating Dependencies.- ERR- Expected Reciprocal Rank.- ERR-IA Intent-aware ERR.- Escrow Transactions.- European Law in Databases.- Evaluation Metrics for Structured Text Retrieval.- Evaluation of Relational Operators.- Event.- Event and Pattern Detection over Streams.- Event Causality.- Event Channel.- Event Cloud.- Event Detection.- Event Driven Architecture.- Event Flow.- Event in Active Databases.- Event in Temporal Databases.- Event Lineage.- Event Pattern Detection.- Event Prediction.- Event Processing Agent.- Event Processing Network.- Event Sink.- Event Source.- Event Specification.- Event Stream.- Event Transformation.- Event-Driven Business Process Management.- Eventual Consistency.- Evidence Based Medicine.- Executable Knowledge.- Execution Skew.- Explicit Event.- Exploratory Data Analysis.- Expressive Power of Query Languages.- Extended Entity-Relationship Model.- Extended Transaction Models and the ACTA Framework.- Extendible Hashing.- Extraction, Transformation, and Loading.- Faceted Search.- Fault-Tolerance and High Availability in Data Stream Management Systems.- Feature Extraction for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Feature Selection for Clustering.- Feature-Based 3D Object Retrieval.- Field-Based Information Retrieval Models.- Field-Based Spatial Modeling.- First-Order Logic: Semantics.- First-Order Logic: Syntax.- Fixed Time Span.- Flex Transactions.- FM Synopsis.- F-Measure.- Focused Web Crawling.- FOL Modeling of Integrity Constraints (Dependencies).- Forever.- Form.- Fourth Normal Form.- FQL.- Fractal.- Frequency Moments.- Frequent Graph Patterns.- Frequent Items on Streams.- Frequent Itemset Mining with Constraints.- Frequent Itemsets and Association Rules.- Frequent Partial Orders.- Fully-Automatic Web Data Extraction.- Functional Data Model.- Functional Dependencies for Semi-Structured Data.- Functional Dependency.- Functional Query Language.- Fuzzy Models.- Fuzzy Relation.- Fuzzy Set.- Fuzzy Set Approach.- Fuzzy/Linguistic IF-THEN Rules and Linguistic Descriptions.- Gazetteers.- Gene Expression Arrays.- Generalization of ACID Properties.- Generalized Search Tree.- Genetic Algorithms.- Geographic Information System.- Geographical Information Retrieval.- Geography Markup Language.- Geometric Stream Mining.- GEO-RBAC Model.- Georeferencing.- Geosocial Networks.- Geospatial Metadata.- Geo-Targeted Web Search.- GMAP.- Grammar Inference.- Graph.- Graph Data Management in Scientific Applications.- Graph Database.- Graph Management in the Life Sciences.- Graph Mining.- Graph Mining on Streams.- Graph OLAP.- Graphical Models for Uncertain Data Management.- Grid and Workflows.- Grid File (and Family).- GUIs for Web Data Extraction.- Hash Functions.- Hash Join.- Hash-based Indexing.- Healthcare Metrics.- Hierarchial Clustering.- Hierarchical Data Model.- Hierarchical Data Summarization.- Hierarchical Heavy Hitter Mining on Streams.- Hierarchy.- High Dimensional Indexing.- Histogram.- Histograms on Streams.- History in Temporal Databases.- Homomorphic Encryption.- Horizontally Partitioned Data.- Human Factors Modeling in Crowdsourcing.- Human-centered Computing: Application to Multimedia.- Human-Computer Interaction.- Hypertexts.- I/O Model of Computation.- Icon.- Iconic Displays.- Image.- Image Content Modeling.- Image Database.- Image Management for Biological Data.- Image Metadata.- Image Querying.- Image Representation.- Image Retrieval and Relevance Feedback.- Image Segmentation.- Image Similarity.- Implementation of Database Operators (Joins, Group by, etc.).- Implication of Constraints.- Implications of Genomics for Clinical Informatics.- Implicit Event.- Incomplete Information.- Inconsistent Databases.- Incremental Computation of Queries.- Incremental Crawling.- Incremental Maintenance of Views with Aggregates.- Index Creation and File Structures.- Index Join.- Index Structures for Biological Sequences.- Index Tuning.- Indexed Sequential Access Method.- Indexing and Similarity Search.- Indexing Compressed Text.- Indexing Historical Spatio-Temporal Data.- Indexing in pub/sub systems.- Indexing Metric Spaces.- Indexing of Data Warehouses.- Indexing of the Current and Near-Future Positions of Moving Objects.- Indexing Techniques for Multimedia Data Retrieval.- Indexing the Web.- Indexing Uncertain Data.- Indexing Units of Structured Text Retrieval.- Indexing with Crowds.- Individually Identifiable Data.- Inference Control in Statistical Databases.- Information Extraction.- Information Filtering.- Information Foraging.- Information Integration.- Information Integration Techniques for Scientific Data.- Information Lifecycle Management.- Information Loss Measures.- Information Navigation.- Information Quality.- Information Quality and Decision Making.- Information Quality Assessment.- Information Quality Policy and Strategy.- Information Quality: Managing Information as a Product.- Information Retrieval.- Information Retrieval Models.- Information Retrieval Operations.- Infrastructure As-A-Service (IaaS).- Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval.- Initiator.- In-Network Query Processing.- Integrated DB and IR Approaches.- Integration of Rules and Ontologies.- Intelligent Storage Systems.- Interactive Analytics in Social Media.- Interface.- Interface Engines in Healthcare.- Interoperability in Data Warehouses.- Interoperation of NLP-based Systems with Clinical Databases.- Inter-Operator Parallelism.- Inter-Query Parallelism.- Intra-operator Parallelism.- Intra-Query Parallelism.- Intrusion Detection Technology.- Inverse Document Frequency.- Inverted Files.- IP Storage.- Iterator.- Java Database Connectivity.- Java Enterprise Edition.- Java Metadata Facility.- Join.- Join Dependency.- Join Index.- Join Order.- k-Anonymity.- Karp-Luby Sampling.- KDD Pipeline.- Key.- K-Means and K-Medoids.- Knowledge Base.- Knowledge Base Extraction.- Language Models.- Languages for Web Data Extraction.- Learning Distance Measures.- Lexical Analysis of Textual Data.- Licensing and Contracting Issues in Databases.- Lifespan.- Lightweight Ontologies.- Linear Hashing.- Linear Regression.- Linked Open Data.- Linking and Brushing.- Load Balancing in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks.- Load Shedding.- LOC METS.- Locality.- Locality of Queries.- Location Based Recommendation.- Location Management in Mobile Environments.- Location Update Management.- Location-Based Services.- Locking Granularity and Lock Types.- Logging and Recovery.- Logging/Recovery Subsystem.- Logical and Physical Data Independence.- Logical Database Design: from Conceptual to Logical Schema.- Logical Document Structure.- Logical Foundations of Web Data Extraction.- Logical Models of Information Retrieval.- Logical Unit Number.- Logical Unit Number Mapping.- Logical Volume Manager.- Log-Linear Regression.- Loop.- Loose Coupling.- Machine Learning in Computational Biology.- Main Memory.- Main Memory DBMS.- Maintenance of Materialized Views with Outer-Joins.- Maintenance of Recursive Views.- Managing Compressed Structured Text.- Managing Data Integration Uncertainty.- Managing Probabilistic Entity Extraction.- Mandatory Access Control.- MANET Databases.- MAP.- Map Matching.- MapReduce.- Markup Language.- MashUp.- Massive Array of Idle Disks.- Matrix Masking.- Max-Pattern Mining.- Mean Reciprocal Rank.- Measure.- Mediation.- Membership Query.- Memory Hierarchy.- Memory Locality.- Merkle Trees.- Message Authentication Codes.- Message Queuing Systems.- Meta Data Repository.- Meta Object Facility.- Metadata.- Metadata Interchange Specification.- Metadata Registry, ISO/IEC 11179.- Metamodel.- Metasearch Engines.- Metric Space.- Microaggregation.- Microbenchmark.- Microdata.- Microdata Rounding.- Middleware Support for Database Replication and Caching.- Middleware Support for Precise Failure Semantics.- Mining of Chemical Data.- Mobile Database.- Mobile Interfaces.- Mobile resource search.- Mobile Sensor Network Data Management.- Model Management.- Model-based Querying in Sensor Networks.- Monotone Constraints.- Monte Carlo Methods for Uncertain Data.- Moving Object.- Moving Objects Databases and Tracking.- MRR.- Multi-Data Center Consistency Properties.- Multi-Data Center Replication Protocols.- Multidimensional Data Formats.- Multidimensional Modeling.- Multidimensional Scaling.- Multi-Level Modeling.- Multi-Level Recovery and the ARIES Algorithm.- Multilevel Secure Database Management System.- Multilevel Transactions and Object-Model Transactions.- Multimedia Data.- Multimedia Data Buffering.- Multimedia Data Indexing.- Multimedia Data Querying.- Multimedia Data Storage.- Multimedia Databases.- Multimedia Information Retrieval Model.- Multimedia Metadata.- Multimedia Presentation Databases.- Multimedia Resource Scheduling.- Multimedia Retrieval Evaluation.- Multimedia Tagging.- Multimodal Interfaces.- Multi-Pathing.- Multiple Representation Modeling.- Multi-Query Optimization.- Multi-Resolution Terrain Modeling.- Multi-Step Query Processing.- Multitenancy.- Multi-Tier Architecture.- Multi-tier Storage Systems.- Multivalued Dependency.- Multivariate Visualization Methods.- Multi-version Serializability and Concurrency Control.- Naive Tables.- Narrowed Extended XPath I.- Natural Interaction.- Near-duplicate Retrieval.- Nearest Neighbor Classification.- Nearest Neighbor Query.- Nearest Neighbor Query in Spatio-temporal Databases.- Nested Loop Join.- Nested Transaction Models.- Network Attached Secure Device.- Network Attached Storage.- Network Data Model.- Neural Networks.- N-Gram Models.- Noise Addition.- Nonparametric Data Reduction Techniques.- Non-Perturbative Masking Methods.- Non-relational Streams.- Nonsequenced Semantics.- Normal Form ORA-SS Schema Diagrams.- Normal Forms and Normalization.- NoSQL Stores.- Now in Temporal Databases.- Null Values.- OASIS.- Object Constraint Language.- Object Data Models.- Object Identity.- Object Recognition.- Object Relationship Attribute Data Model for Semi-structured Data.- Object Storage Protocol.- Object-Role Modeling.- OLAM.- OLAP Personalization and Recommendation.- OLAP Personalization and Recommendation_old.- One-Copy-Serializability.- One-Pass Algorithm.- On-Line Analytical Processing.- Online Recovery in Parallel Database Systems.- Ontologies and Life Science Data Management.- Ontology.- Ontology Elicitation.- Ontology Engineering.- Ontology Visual Querying.- Ontology-Based Data Access and Integration.- Open Database Connectivity.- Open Information Extraction.- Open Nested Transaction Models.- Operator-Level Parallelism.- Opinion Mining.- Optimistic Replication and Resolution.- Optimization and Tuning in Data Warehouses.- OQL.- Orchestration.- Order Dependency.- OR-Join.- OR-Split.- OSQL.- Outlier Detection.- Overlay Network.- OWL: Web Ontology Language.- P/FDM.- Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses.- Parallel Coordinates.- Parallel Data Placement.- Parallel Database Management.- Parallel Hash Join, Parallel Merge Join, Parallel Nested Loops Join.- Parallel Query Execution Algorithms.- Parallel Query Optimization.- Parallel Query Processing.- Parameterized Complexity of Queries.- Parametric Data Reduction Techniques.- Partial Replication.- Path Query.- Pattern-Growth Methods.- Peer Data Management System.- Peer to Peer Overlay Networks: Structure, Routing and Maintenance.- Peer-To-Peer Content Distribution.- Peer-to-Peer Data Integration.- Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe Systems.- Peer-to-Peer Storage.- Peer-to-Peer System.- Peer-to-Peer Web Search.- Performance Analysis of Transaction Processing Systems.- Performance Monitoring Tools.- Period-Stamped Temporal Models.- Personalized Web Search.- Petri Nets.- Physical Clock.- Physical Database Design for Relational Databases.- Physical Layer Tuning.- Pipeline.- Pipelining.- Platform As-A-Service (PaaS).- Point-in-Time Copy.- Point-Stamped Temporal Models.- Polytransactions.- Positive Relational Algebra.- Possible Answers.- PRAM.- Precision.- Precision and Recall.- Precision at n.- Precision-Oriented Effectiveness Measures.- Predictive Analytics.- Preference Queries.- Preference Specification.- Prescriptive Analytics.- Presenting Structured Text Retrieval Results.- Primary Index.- Principal Component Analysis.- Privacy.- Privacy Metrics.- Privacy Policies and Preferences.- Privacy through Accountability.- Privacy-Enhancing Technologies.- Privacy-Preserving Data Mining.- Privacy-Preserving DBMSs.- Private Information Retrieval.- Probabilistic Databases.- Probabilistic Entity Resolution.- Probabilistic Retrieval Models and Binary Independence Retrieval (BIR) Model.- Probabilistic Skylines.- Probabilistic Spatial Queries.- Probabilistic Temporal Databases.- Probability Ranking Principle.- Probability Smoothing.- Process Life Cycle.- Process Mining.- Process Modeling.- Process Optimization.- Process Structure of a DBMS.- Processing Overlaps in Structured Text Retrieval.- Processing Structural Constraints.- Processor Cache.- Profiles and Context for Structured Text Retrieval.- Projection.- Propagation-based Structured Text Retrieval.- Protection from Insider Threats.- Provenance.- Provenance and Reproducibility.- Provenance in Databases.- Provenance in Scientific Databases.- Provenance in Workflows.- Provenance Management.- Provenance Standards.- Provenance Storage.- Provenance: Privacy and Security.- Pseudonymity.- Publish/Subscribe.- Publish/Subscribe over Streams.- Punctuations.- Q-measure.- Quadtrees (and Family).- Qualitative Temporal Reasoning.- Quality and Trust of Information Content and Credentialing.- Quality of Data Warehouses.- Quantiles on Streams.- Quantitative Association Rules.- QUEL.- Query by Humming.- Query Containment.- Query Evaluation Techniques for Multidimensional Data.- Query Expansion for Information Retrieval.- Query Expansion Models.- Query Language.- Query Languages and Evaluation Techniques for Biological Sequence Data.- Query Languages for the Life Sciences.- Query Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems.- Query Optimization.- Query Optimization (in Relational Databases).- Query Optimization in Sensor Networks.- Query Plan.- Query Point Movement Techniques for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Query Processing.- Query Processing (in Relational Databases).- Query Processing and Optimization in Object Relational Databases.- Query Processing in data integration systems.- Query Processing in Data Warehouses.- Query Processing in Deductive Databases.- Query Processing over Uncertain Data.- Query Processor.- Query Rewriting.- Query Rewriting Using Views.- Query Translation.- Quorum Systems.- Randomization Methods to Ensure Data Privacy.- Range Query.- Rank-aware Query Processing.- Ranked XML Processing.- Ranking Functions.- Ranking Views.- Rank-Join.- Rank-Join Indices.- Raster Data Management and Multi-Dimensional Arrays.- RDF Stores.- RDF Technology.- Real and Synthetic Test Datasets.- Real-Time Transaction Processing.- Recall.- Receiver Operating Characteristic.- Recommender Systems.- Record Linkage.- Record Matching.- Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks.- Reference Knowledge.- Region Algebra.- Regulatory Compliance in Data Management.- Relational Algebra.- Relational Calculus.- Relational Model.- Relationships in Structured Text Retrieval.- Relative Time.- Relevance.- Relevance Feedback.- Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Information Retrieval.- Relevance Feedback for Text Retrieval.- Replica Control.- Replica Freshness.- Replicated Data Types.- Replicated Database Concurrency Control.- Replication.- Replication Based on Group Communication.- Replication for Availability and Fault-Tolerance.- Replication for High Availability.- Replication for Paxos.- Replication for Scalability.- Replication in Multi-Tier Architectures.- Replication with Snapshot Isolation.- Reputation and Trust.- Request Broker.- Residuated Lattice.- Resource Allocation Problems in Spatial Databases.- Resource Description Framework.- Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema (RDFS).- Resource Identifier.- Result Display.- Retrospective Event Processing.- Reverse Nearest Neighbor Query.- Reverse Top-k Queries.- Rewriting Queries using Views.- RMI.- Road Networks.- Rocchio's Formula.- Role Based Access Control.- R-Precision.- R-Tree (and Family).- Rule-based Classification.- Safety and Domain Independence.- Sagas.- Sampling Techniques for Statistical Databases.- SAN File System.- Scalable Decision Tree Construction.- Scheduler.- Scheduling Strategies for Data Stream Processing.- Schema Evolution.- Schema Mapping.- Schema Mapping Composition.- Schema Matching.- Schema Tuning.- Schema Versioning.- Scheme/Ontology Extraction.- Scientific Databases.- Scientific Visualization.- Scientific Workflows.- Score Aggregation.- Screen Scraper.- SCSI Target.- SDC Score.- Search Engine Metrics.- Searching Digital Libraries.- Second Normal Form (2NF).- Secondary Index.- Secure Data Outsourcing.- Secure Database Development.- Secure Multiparty Computation Methods.- Secure Transaction Processing.- Security Services.- Segmentation and Stratification.- Segmentation and Stratification_old.- Selection.- Selectivity Estimation.- Self-Maintenance of Views.- Self-Management Technology in Databases.- Semantic Atomicity.- Semantic Crowd Sourcing.- Semantic Data Integration for Life Science Entities.- Semantic Data Model.- Semantic Matching.- Semantic Modeling and Knowledge Representation for Multimedia Data.- Semantic Modeling for Geographic Information Systems.- Semantic Overlay Networks.- Semantic Social Web.- Semantic Streams.- Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Query Languages.- Semantic Web Services.- Semantics-based Concurrency Control.- Semijoin.- Semijoin Program.- Semi-Structured Data.- Semi-Structured Data Model.- Semi-Structured Database Design.- Semi-Structured Query Languages.- Semi-Supervised Learning.- Sensor Networks.- Sequenced Semantics.- Sequential Patterns.- Serializability.- Serializable Snapshot Isolation.- Service Component Architecture (SCA).- Service Oriented Architecture.- Session.- Shared-Disk Architecture.- Shared-Memory Architecture.- Shared-Nothing Architecture.- Side-Effect-Free View Updates.- Signature Files.- Similarity and Ranking Operations.- Simplicial Complex.- Singular Value Decomposition.- Skyline Queries and Pareto Optimality.- Snapshot Equivalence.- Snapshot Isolation.- Snippet.- Snowflake Schema.- SOAP.- Social Applications.- Social influence.- Social Media Analysis.- Social Media Analytics.- Social Media Harvesting.- Social network analysis.- Social Networks.- Software As-A-Service (SaaS).- Software Transactional Memory.- Software-Defined Storage.- Solid State Drive (SSD).- Sort-Merge Join.- Space-Filling Curves.- Space-Filling Curves for Query Processing.- SPARQL.- Sparse Index.- Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Models and Languages.- Spatial and Temporal Data Warehouses .- Spatial Anonymity.- Spatial Data Analysis.- Spatial Data Mining.- Spatial Data Types.- Spatial Datawarehousing.- Spatial Indexing Techniques.- Spatial Join.- Spatial Keyword Search.- Spatial Matching Problems.- Spatial Network Databases.- Spatial Operations and Map Operations.- Spatial Queries in the Cloud.- Spatio-Temporal Data Mining.- Spatio-Temporal Data Types.- Spatio-Temporal Data Warehouses.- Spatiotemporal Interpolation Algorithms.- Spatio-Temporal Selectivity Estimation.- Spatio-Temporal Trajectories.- Specialization and Generalization.- Specificity.- Spectral Clustering.- Split.- Split Transactions.- SQL.- SQL Analytics on Big Data.- SQL Isolation Levels.- SQL-Based Temporal Query Languages.- Stable Distribution.- Stack-based Query Language.- Staged DBMS.- Standard Effectiveness Measures.- Star Index.- Star Schema.- State-based Publish/Subscribe.- Statistical Data Management.- Statistical Disclosure Limitation For Data Access.- Steganography.- Stemming.- Stop-&-go Operator.- Stoplists.- Storage Access Models.- Storage Area Network.- Storage Consolidation.- Storage Devices.- Storage Grid.- Storage Management.- Storage Management Initiative-Specification.- Storage Manager.- Storage Network Architectures.- Storage Networking Industry Association.- Storage of Large Scale Multidimensional Data.- Storage Power Management.- Storage Protection.- Storage Protocols.- Storage Resource Management.- Storage Security.- Storage Virtualization.- Stored Procedure.- Stream Mining.- Stream Models.- Stream Processing.- Stream processing on modern hardware.- Stream Reasoning.- Stream Sampling.- Stream Similarity Mining.- Streaming Analytics.- Streaming Applications.- Stream-Oriented Query Languages and Operators.- Strong Consistency Models for Replicated Data.- Structural Indexing.- Structure Analytics in Social Media.- Structure Weight.- Structured Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Structured Document Retrieval.- Structured Text Retrieval Models.- Subject Spaces.- Subspace Clustering Techniques.- Success at n.- Succinct Constraints.- Suffix Tree.- Summarizability.- Summarization.- Support Vector Machine.- Supporting Transaction Time Databases.- Symbolic Representation.- Symmetric Encryption.- Synopsis Structure.- Synthetic Microdata.- System R (R*) Optimizer.- Table.- Tabular Data.- Taxonomy: Biomedical Health Informatics.- tBench.- Telic Distinction in Temporal Databases.- Telos.- Temporal Access Control.- Temporal Aggregation.- Temporal Algebras.- Temporal Analytics in Social Media.- Temporal Benchmarks.- Temporal Coalescing.- Temporal Compatibility.- Temporal Conceptual Models.- Temporal Constraints.- Temporal Data Mining.- Temporal Data Models.- Temporal Database.- Temporal Datawarehousing.- Temporal Dependencies.- Temporal Element.- Temporal Expression.- Temporal Generalization.- Temporal Granularity.- Temporal Homogeneity.- Temporal Indeterminacy.- Temporal Integrity Constraints.- Temporal Joins.- Temporal Logic in Database Query Languages.- Temporal Logical Models.- Temporal Object-Oriented Databases.- Temporal Periodicity.- Temporal Projection.- Temporal PSM.- Temporal Query Languages.- Temporal Query Processing.- Temporal Relational Calculus.- Temporal Specialization.- Temporal Strata.- Temporal Support in the SQL Standard.- Temporal Vacuuming.- Temporal Visual Languages.- Temporal XML.- Term Proximity.- Term Statistics for Structured Text Retrieval.- Term Weighting.- Test Collection.- Text Analytics.- Text Analytics in Social Media.- Text Categorization.- Text Clustering.- Text Compression.- Text Generation.- Text Index Compression.- Text Indexing and Retrieval.- Text Indexing Techniques.- Text Mining.- Text Mining of Biological Resources.- Text Representation.- Text Segmentation.- Text Semantic Representation.- Text Stream Processing.- Text Streaming Model.- Text Summarization.- Text Visualization.- TF*IDF.- Thematic Map.- Third Normal Form.- Three-Dimensional GIS and Geological Applications.- Three-Phase Commit.- Tight Coupling.- Time Aggregated Graphs.- Time and Information Retrieval.- Time Domain.- Time in Philosophical Logic.- Time Instant.- Time Interval.- Time Period.- Time Series Query.- Time Span.- Time-Line Clock.- Timeslice Operator.- Topic Detection and Tracking.- Topic Maps.- Topic-based Publish/Subscribe.- Top-k Queries.- Top-K Selection Queries on Multimedia Datasets.- Topological Data Models.- Topological Relationships.- Trajectory.- Transaction.- Transaction Chopping.- Transaction Management.- Transaction Manager.- Transaction Models - the Read/Write Approach.- Transaction Time.- Transactional Middleware.- Transactional Processes.- Transactional Stream Processing.- Transaction-Time Indexing.- Tree-based Indexing.- Treemaps.- Triangular Norms.- Triangulated Irregular Network.- Trie.- Trip Planning Queries.- Trust and Reputation in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Trust in Blogosphere.- Trusted Hardware.- TSQL2.- Tuning Concurrency Control.- Tuple-Generating Dependencies.- Two-Dimensional Shape Retrieval.- Two-Phase Commit.- Two-Phase Commit Protocol.- Two-Phase Locking.- Two-Poisson model.- Type-based Publish/Subscribe.- U-measure.- Uncertain Data Lineage.- Uncertain Data Mining.- Uncertain Data Models.- Uncertain Data Streams.- Uncertain Data Summarization.- Uncertain Graph Data Management.- Uncertain Spatial Data Management.- Uncertain Top-k Queries.- Uncertainty in Events.- Uncertainty Management in Scientific Database Systems.- Unicode.- Unified Modeling Language.- Union.- Unobservability.- Updates and Transactions in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Updates through Views.- Usability.- User-Defined Time.- Valid Time.- Valid-Time Indexing.- Value Equivalence.- Variable Time Span.- Vector-Space Model.- Vertically Partitioned Data.- Video.- Video Content Analysis.- Video Content Modeling.- Video Content Structure.- Video Metadata.- Video Querying.- Video Representation.- Video Scene and Event Detection.- Video Segmentation.- Video Sequence Indexing.- Video Shot Detection.- Video Summarization.- View Adaptation.- View Definition.- View Maintenance.- View Maintenance Aspects.- View-based Data Integration.- Views.- Virtual Partitioning.- Visual Analytics.- Visual Association Rules.- Visual Classification.- Visual Clustering.- Visual Content Analysis.- Visual Data Mining.- Visual Formalisms.- Visual Interaction.- Visual Interfaces.- Visual Interfaces for Geographic Data.- Visual interfaces for streaming data.- Visual Metaphor.- Visual On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP).- Visual Perception.- Visual Query Language.- Visual Representation.- Visualization for Information Retrieval.- Visualization Pipeline.- Visualizing Categorical Data.- Visualizing Clustering Results.- Visualizing Hierarchical Data.- Visualizing Network Data.- Visualizing Quantitative Data.- Volume.- Voronoi Diagrams.- W3C.- WAN Data Replication.- Wavelets on Streams.- Weak Consistency Models for Replicated Data.- Weak Equivalence.- Web 2.0/3.0.- Web Advertising.- Web Characteristics and Evolution.- Web Crawler Architecture.- Web Data Extraction System.- Web ETL.- Web Harvesting.- Web Information Extraction.- WEB Information Retrieval Models.- Web Mashups.- Web Page Quality Metrics.- Web Question Answering.- Web Search Query Rewriting.- Web Search Relevance Feedback.- Web Search Relevance Ranking.- Web Search Result Caching and Prefetching.- Web Search Result De-duplication and Clustering.- Web Services.- Web Services and the Semantic Web for Life Science Data.- Web Spam Detection.- Web Transactions.- Web Views.- What-If Analysis.- WIMP Interfaces.- Window operator in RDBMS.- Window-based Query Processing.- Windows.- Workflow Constructs.- Workflow Evolution.- Workflow Join.- Workflow Management.- Workflow Management and Workflow Management System.- Workflow Management Coalition.- Workflow Model.- Workflow Model Analysis.- Workflow Patterns.- Workflow Schema.- Workflow Transactions.- Wrapper Induction.- Wrapper Maintenance.- Wrapper Stability.- Write Once Read Many.- XML.- XML Access Control.- XML Attribute.- XML Benchmarks.- XML Compression.- XML Document.- XML Element.- XML Indexing.- XML Information Integration.- XML Integrity Constraints.- XML Metadata Interchange.- XML Metadata Interchange Specification (XMI).- XML Parsing, SAX/DOM.- XML Process Definition Language.- XML Programming.- XML Publish/Subscribe.- XML Publishing.- XML Retrieval.- XML Schema.- XML Selectivity Estimation.- XML Storage.- XML Stream Processing.- XML Tree Pattern, XML Twig Query.- XML Tuple Algebra.- XML Typechecking.- XML Types.- XML Updates.- XML Views.- XPath/XQuery.- XQuery Full-Text.- XQuery Processors.- XSL/XSLT.- Zero-One Laws.- Zooming Techniques.- a-nDCG.-