0387001751_3136

Web Data Management



Sourav S. Bhowmick
Wee Keong Ng

Sanjay K. Madria

Web Data Management
A Warehouse Approach
With 106 Illustrations


Sourav S. Bhowmick
and Wee Keong Ng
School of Computer Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue
Blk N4 2A-32
Nanyang, 639798
Singapore



Sanjay K. Madria
University of Missouri
Department of Computer Science
1870 Miner Circle Drive
310 Computer Science Building

Rolla, MO 65409
USA


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bhowmick, Sourav S.
Web data management : a warehouse approach / Sourav S. Bhowmick, Sanjay K.
Madria, Wee Keong Ng.
p. cm. — (Springer professional computing)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-387-00175-1 (alk. paper)
1. Web databases. 2. Database management. 3. Data warehousing. I. Madria, Sanjay
Kumar. II. Ng, Wee Keong. III. Title. IV. Series.
QA76.9.W43B46 2003
005.75′8—dc21
2003050523
ISBN 0-387-00175-1

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Index

table node pool, 374
tag, 52
tag attributes, 203
tag object, 79
tagless, 147
tags, 72, 147
target node type identifier, 129
Technion (Israel Institute of Technology),
21
Thunderstone, 20
TopBlend, 369
topic-specific PIW crawlers, 11
topological structure, 149
transaction management, 48
TranScm, 208
traverse, 50
treatment statement, 127
trigger, 13

truncation, 18
TSIMMIS, 37
tumour, 127
tuple, 27
tuple set, 257
type coercion, 48
type identifiers, 260
type-checking, 48
ULIXES, 46, 146, 147, 205
unbounded length paths, 203
UNIX, 21
unordered, 56
UnQL, 47, 146, 149
URL, 27, 127, 158, 202, 208
URL-minder, 369
user-driven coupling, 252
valid coupling query, 194
valid query, 189
validity checking phase, 181
validity conditions, 165
value, 100
value-driven predicate, 114
variables, 30
versions, 374
view-definition language, 42
virtual loose schema, 42
visibility, 399
visualization, 8
visualize, 353
VScmDL, 208

W3QL, 21, 22
W3QS, 21, 30, 146, 147, 204, 208
warehouse, 149
warehouse data, 207
warehouse document pool, 374
warehouse node pool, 374
warehousing, 1
Web, 1, 17
web algebra, 417
web algebraic operators, 16, 251, 367, 418
web bag, 273, 419
web cartesian product, 288
web coalesce, 358
web correlate, 424
web crawler, 5, 20
Web data, 1, 14, 18, 147, 203, 257, 417
web delta manager, 11
web deltas, 12
web directory services, 425
web distinct, 273, 417
Web documents, 127, 255, 357, 418, 420
web join, 213, 417
web manipulator, 11
web marts, 13
web miner, 11, 417
web objects, 202, 418
web operators, 251, 417
web project, 11, 216, 251, 417
web query, 99, 161, 202

web query processing systems, 391
web ranking, 424
web schema, 181, 207, 252, 355, 399, 418
web schema pool, 375
web select, 168, 247
Web sites, 2, 8
web sort, 364
web table, 12, 176, 207, 251, 353, 355, 371,
391, 418
web table generation phase, 253
web tuple pool, 374, 375
web tuples, 200, 207, 251, 391, 418
web tuples generation phase, 253
web union, 252, 417
web warehouse, 1, 2, 5, 10, 205, 207, 287,
389, 392
web warehousing, 417
WebCQ, 370
WebGUIDE, 369
WebLog, 21, 28, 30, 147, 149, 204, 208
WebOQL, 40, 44, 146, 147, 204


Index
webs, 45
WebSQL, 21, 27, 30, 147, 149, 203, 204,
208
WHIRL, 40
WHOM, 10, 94, 418
WHOWEDA, 11, 17, 146, 207, 251, 289,

367, 418
WordNet, 32
World Wide Web, 1
wrapper, 7, 8, 35
Wrapper Specification Language (WSL),
38

WWW, 14, 18, 146, 390
X-Terminal, 24
XML, 8, 17, 210
XML Graph, 57
XML-QL, 52, 56, 146, 147, 205
XML-QL query, 58
Xpath, 90
Yahoo, 5, 20
YAT, 209
YATL , 52, 147, 205

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