عنوان

Engineering Databases :

(Number (ISBN

3642615082

(Number (ISBN

9783642615085

Number

b571811

Title Proper

Engineering Databases :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Connecting Islands of Automation Through Databases

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by José L. Encarnação, Peter C. Lockemann.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1990

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xii, 229 pages 152 illustrations)

Series Title

Symbolic computation., Computer graphics--systems and applications.

Text of Note

1 Significance of Engineering Databases.- 1.1 The Situation.- 1.1.1 Evolution of Engineering/Scientific Data Processing (CAx).- 1.1.2 Oceans of Information.- 1.1.3 Bridging the Islands.- 1.2 The Solution.- 1.2.1 Integration Through Databases.- 1.2.2 CIE: Computer Integrated Enterprise.- 1.3 The Architecture of an Engineering Database System.- 1.3.1 Conceptual Aspects.- 1.3.2 Hybrid Solutions.- 1.4 Organizational Procedures.- 1.4.1 Information Engineering.- 1.4.2 Management Aspects.- 1.5 Further Reading.- 2 Database Technology.- 2.1 Concepts and Terminology.- 2.1.1 Characteristics of Database Systems.- 2.1.2 Operation of Database Systems.- 2.1.3 Outline of the Chapter.- 2.1.4 A Running Example.- 2.2 Data Organization and Manipulation: Current Status.- 2.2.1 The Classical Data Models.- 2.2.1.1 The Hierarchical Data Model.- 2.2.1.2 The Network Data Model.- 2.2.1.3 The Relational Data Model.- 2.2.2 Database System Interfaces.- 2.2.2.1 Database Languages and Standards.- 2.2.2.2 The Hierarchical Data Model.- 2.2.2.3 The Network Data Model.- 2.2.2.4 The Relational Data Model.- 2.2.3 Database Consistency.- 2.2.3.1 Consistency Control.- 2.2.3.2 Expressing Consistency Constraints.- 2.2.4 Concurrency.- 2.2.5 Database Recovery.- 2.2.6 Transaction Management.- 2.2.7 Miscellaneous Services.- 2.2.7.1 Protection.- 2.2.7.2 Mass Data Input and Output.- 2.2.7.3 Data Dictionary.- 2.2.8 System Organization and Environment.- 2.2.8.1 Distribution Aspects.- 2.2.8.2 Hardware and Operating System Aspects.- 2.2.9 Performance Control.- 2.2.10 Further Reading.- 2.3 Database Systems for Engineering Applications: A New Focus.- 2.3.1 Perspectives.- 2.3.2 Data Model.- 2.3.3 Database System Interface.- 2.3.4 Database Consistency.- 2.3.5 Concurrency.- 2.3.6 Database Recovery.- 2.3.7 Transaction Management.- 2.3.8 Miscellaneous Services.- 2.3.9 System Organization.- 2.3.10 Performance Control.- 2.4 Data Organization and Manipulation: Taking Care of the New Focus.- 2.4.1 Trends and Objectives.- 2.4.2 Data Models.- 2.4.2.1 Semantic Concepts.- 2.4.2.2 Object Identification.- 2.4.2.3 Objects and Relationships.- 2.4.2.4 Attributes.- 2.4.2.5 Object-Oriented Database Systems.- 2.4.3 Other Issues.- 2.4.4 Further Reading.- 3 Utilization of Engineering Databases.- 3.1 Motivation.- 3.2 Database Schema Design.- 3.2.1 Principles of Schema Definition.- 3.2.2 Typical Situations.- 3.2.3 Objects and Interdependencies.- 3.2.3.1 Object Representations.- 3.2.3.2 Object Interdependencies.- 3.2.3.3 Library and Object Overlapping Information.- 3.3 Version Management.- 3.3.1 Version Generation in the Course of a Design Process.- 3.3.2 Modeling of Version Interrelations.- 3.3.3 Configuration Modeling Based on Version Management.- 3.3.4 Support of Design Control.- 3.3.5 Version and Configuration Management Based on DAMOKLES.- 3.4 Generating and Entering Data.- 3.4.1 Criteria for Characterizing the Generation Process.- 3.4.2 Commercial Applications.- 3.4.3 Engineering Applications.- 3.4.4 Example.- 3.5 Archiving Database Objects.- 3.5.1 General Requirements for an Archiving Mechanism in a Database System.- 3.5.2 Archiving Objects.- 3.5.3 Archiving Versions.- 3.5.4 Archiving Configurations.- 3.6 Data Interchange.- 3.6.1 Importance of Data Interchange in Engineering Applications.- 3.6.2 Data Interchange in Different Levels of System Integration.- 3.6.3 Kind and Structure of Interchange Data.- 3.6.4 Requirements for Data Interchange in New Comprehensive Applications.- 3.6.5 Example of a New Format for VLSI-Design: EDIF.- 3.7 Application Programming.- 3.7.1 Application Programming in Different Levels of System Integration.- 3.7.2 Use of Database Functions for Application Programming.- 3.8 Further Reading.- 4 Case Studies.- 4.1 VLSI Design.- 4.1.1 The E.I.S. Project - Conception of an Integrated Open VLSI Design System.- 4.1.2 Representation of Design Information in Relational Databases.- 4.1.2.1 Modeling of Design Objects for Extensions of Relational Databases.- 4.1.2.2 Implementing an Operational Interface on Top of the Relational Database System ORACLE.- 4.1.3 EDIF-Oriented Design Systems.- 4.1.3.1 EDIF-Oriented Database Schemes.- 4.1.3.2 The EDIF System - Support Tools for Checking and Previewing EDIF.- 4.2 Software Engineering.- 4.2.1 Software Engineering Environments.- 4.2.1.1 Requirements of Software Engineering.- 4.2.1.2 A System Engineering Environment.- 4.2.2 The PRODAT Object Model.- 4.2.2.1 Simple Objects.- 4.2.2.2 Structured Objects and Relationships.- 4.2.2.3 Completeness of Objects.- 4.2.2.4 Standard Relationships in Software Engineering.- 4.2.2.5 Versions.- 4.2.2.6 Configurations.- 4.2.3 Tool Using PRODAT - The Object Editor.- 4.2.4 PRODAT as Interface to DAMOKLES in Software Engineering.- 4.3 Further Reading.

Text of Note

This book discusses the maturity of today's database technology in the light of the needs of engineering applications and industrial automation. Those at the forefront of database research come up with new techniques to satisfy new needs, but today's engineering community must live with database systems that reflect the older state of the art. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that even though solutions based on today's technology are less than perfect, they do provide solutions to current pressing problems. The book mainly covers current database technology and its applications, but also mentions some promising techniques under research in order to prepare the reader for the future. The book contains four chapters that cover the significance of engineering databases, the current state of database technology, the utilization of engineering databases, and two extensive case studies. For cursory reading, the chapters may be considered to be self-contained. Intended readers are middle management and engineers from industry who deal with automation both as users and vendors, consultants to such industry, vendors of database systems, and lecturers and students. The book requires no special background in informatics.

Computer science.

Database management.

Software engineering.

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edited by José L. Encarnação, Peter C. Lockemann.

José L Encarnação

Peter C Lockemann

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