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Book review: INTELLIGENT DATABASES: OBJECT-ORIENTED, DEDUCTIVE HYPERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES by K. Parsaye, M. Chignell, S. Khoshafian & H. Wong (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989)

Book review: INTELLIGENT DATABASES: OBJECT-ORIENTED, DEDUCTIVE HYPERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES by K.... announcements BOOK REVIEW S INTELLIGENT DATABASES : OBJECT-ORIENTED, DEDUCTIVE HYPERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIE S understanding object oriente d programming and representatio n strategies . While it may be easie r for those with some exposure t o computer science fundamentals t o grasp the more complex aspect s of this technology, it is certainl y written at a level that i s appropriate for the les s sophisticated reader . The discussions in these sections form , on the whole, one of the bette r descriptions of the technical aspects of the field . The latte r three sections highlight the kinds of changes that an "object orientation " will have over th e next few years as this technolog y continues to mature—focusing in particular on hypermedia issues . The first area covered in thi s book is the section on Databas e Systems . It is one of the bes t discussions in the book , describing the historical evolutio n of databases from the early hierarchical and network model s to the more recent model—the relational database . Using simple and clear examples, the author s describe database architectures , manipulation languages (how t o insert, retrieve http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Association for Computing Machinery

Book review: INTELLIGENT DATABASES: OBJECT-ORIENTED, DEDUCTIVE HYPERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES by K. Parsaye, M. Chignell, S. Khoshafian & H. Wong (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989)

Reviewer-Cook, Linda K.
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin , Volume 22 (2) – Nov 1, 1990
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Copyright © 1990 by ACM Inc.
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0736-6906
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10.1145/122475.1047999
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announcements BOOK REVIEW S INTELLIGENT DATABASES : OBJECT-ORIENTED, DEDUCTIVE HYPERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIE S understanding object oriente d programming and representatio n strategies . While it may be easie r for those with some exposure t o computer science fundamentals t o grasp the more complex aspect s of this technology, it is certainl y written at a level that i s appropriate for the les s sophisticated reader . The discussions in these sections form , on the whole, one of the bette r descriptions of the technical aspects of the field . The latte r three sections highlight the kinds of changes that an "object orientation " will have over th e next few years as this technolog y continues to mature—focusing in particular on hypermedia issues . The first area covered in thi s book is the section on Databas e Systems . It is one of the bes t discussions in the book , describing the historical evolutio n of databases from the early hierarchical and network model s to the more recent model—the relational database . Using simple and clear examples, the author s describe database architectures , manipulation languages (how t o insert, retrieve

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Published: Nov 1, 1990

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