Fernandes Alvaro A.A., Gray Alasdair J.G., Belhajjame Khalid (eds.) Advances in Databases

Springer, 2011. — 238 p. — ISBN: 3642245765, 9783642245763This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 28th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 28, held in Manchester, UK, in July 2011. The 13 revised full papers, 2 short papers, 2 demo papers and 1 poster paper presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote talks and 1 tutorial paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as XML compression, XML updates, column-oriented stores, provenance, warehousing, streamed data, data mashups, dataspaces, sensor network query processing, and pattern-oriented search.