Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends in Databases

Query Processing on Probabilistic Data: A Survey presents the main approaches developed in the literature on probabilistic relational data, reconciling concepts developed in parallel by the Database and Artificial Intelligence communities.

This monograph provides an overview of recent developments in main-memory database systems.

This monograph is an ideal primer for medical and computer science professionals designing and understanding data infrastructure for medical research. It is intended to appeal to both audiences: technical/computer scientists in the process of designing infrastructure and systems for the analysis of medical data as well as medical professionals who want to understand the challenges involved.

This monograph reviews some of the recent theoretical results on efficient data processing on large distributed architectures and some of the relevant classical results on parallel sorting and parallel matrix multiplication.