Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems VI [[electronic resource] ] : Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications / / edited by Abdelkader Hameurlain, Josef Küng, Roland Wagner, Stephen W. Liddle, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Xiaofang Zhou

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466186603316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012
• ISBN: 3-642-34179-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2012.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 259 p. 113 illus.)
• Collana: Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, , 1869-1994 ; ; 7600
• Disciplina: 003/.71
• Soggetti: Database management; Data mining; Artificial intelligence; Data structures (Computer science); Computer simulation; Information storage and retrieval; Database Management; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Artificial Intelligence; Data Storage Representation; Simulation and Modeling; Information Storage and Retrieval
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Combination Skyline Queries -- Comparing and Evaluating Approaches to Probabilistic Reasoning: Theory, Implementation, and Applications -- The Science and Art of Conceptual Modelling -- Predictive Line Queries for Traffic Prediction -- A DHT-Based System for the Management of Loosely Structured, Multidimensional Data -- A Grammarware for the Incremental Validation of Integrity Constraints on XML Documents under Multiple Updates -- Database Support for Enabling Data-Discovery Queries over Semantically-Annotated ; Observational Data -- Probabilistically Ranking Web Article Quality Based on Evolution Patterns.
• Sommario/riassunto: The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between grids, P2P systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments. This, the sixth issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains eight extended and revised versions of papers selected from those presented at DEXA 2011. Topics covered include skyline queries, probabilistic logics and reasoning, theory of conceptual modeling, prediction in networks of moving objects, validation of XML integrity constraints, management of loosely structured multi-dimensional data, data discovery in the presence of annotations, and quality ranking for Web articles.

The authority of everyday objects [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of West German industrial design / / Paul Betts

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783389603321
• Autore: Betts Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-36040-X; 9781417544996; 9786612360404; 0-520-94135-7; 1-59734-477-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 pages)
• Collana: Weimar and now ; ; 34
• Classificazione: LK 92900
• Disciplina: 745.2/0943
• Soggetti: Industrial design - Germany - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-338) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Design, the Cold War, and West German Culture -- CHAPTER ONE. Re-Enchanting the Commodity -- CHAPTER TWO. The Conscience of the Nation -- CHAPTER THREE. The Nierentisch Nemesis -- CHAPTER FOUR. Design and Its Discontents -- CHAPTER FIVE. Design, Liberalism, and the State -- CHAPTER SIX. Coming in from the Cold -- CONCLUSION. Memory and Materialism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups-including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations-who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even ; moral regeneration. These cultural battles took on heightened importance precisely because the stakes were nothing less than the very shape and significance of West German domestic modernity. Betts tells the rich and far-reaching story of how and why commodity aesthetics became a focal point for fashioning a certain West German cultural identity. This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.