Engineering Databases: Connecting Islands of Automation Through Databases - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3642648592 ISBN 13: 9783642648595

Casa editrice: Springer, 2011

Riassunto

This book deals with database technology as it applies to technical processes in planning, design and manufacture. It acquaints the reader with the technical perspectives of database systems and with user interfaces and standards.

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Contenuti

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3642648592
• ISBN 13: 9783642648595
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Redattore: Encarnacao Jose L., Lockemann Peter C.
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