Title : 
Improving Web database access using decision diagrams
         
        
            Author : 
Popel, Denis V. ; Hakeem, Nawar Al
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wollongong Univ., NSW, Australia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In some areas of management and commerce that are accelerated by advances in Web technologies, especially in electronic commerce (e-commerce), it is essential to support the decision-making process using formal methods. The problems of e-commerce applications include reducing the time of data access so that huge databases can be searched quickly, decreasing the cost of database design, etc. We present a decision diagram design application using an information-theoretical approach to improve database access speeds. We show that such a utilization provides systematic and visual ways of applying decision-making methods to simplify complex Web engineering problems
         
        
            Keywords : 
decision diagrams; distributed databases; electronic commerce; formal specification; information resources; information retrieval; information theory; very large databases; Web engineering; World Wide Web database access; data access time; database access speeds; database design costs; decision diagrams; decision-making process; electronic commerce; formal methods; information theory; large database searching; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Business; Computer science; Data mining; Decision making; Electronic commerce; Modems; Technology management; Visual databases;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer Systems and Applications, ACS/IEEE International Conference on. 2001
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beirut
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-1165-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/AICCSA.2001.934056