Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXIV, 1st ed. 2016
Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems Series

This, the 24th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of seven papers presented at the 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014. Following the conference, and two further rounds of reviewing and selection, six extended papers and one invited keynote paper were chosen for inclusion in this special issue. Topics covered include systems modeling, similarity search, bioinformatics, data pricing, k-nearest neighbor querying, database replication, and data anonymization.

Reflective Constraint Writing.- PPP-Codes for Large-Scale Similarity Searching.- Solving Data Mismatches in Bioinformatics Workflows by Generating Data Converters.- A Framework for Sampling-Based XML Data Pricing.- kdANN+: A Rapid AkNN Classifier for Big Data.- Optimizing Inter-Data-Center Large-Scale Database Parallel Replication with Workload-Driven Partitioning.- Anonymization of Data Sets with NULL Values.

Contains extended and improved versions of papers selected from DEXA 2014

Includes an extensive keynote paper focusing on systems modeling

Covers a wide range of topics on database- and expert-system applications

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras