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Appendix: Data Management
Systems: Developments and Trends
A.1 OVERVIEW
The main purpose of this appendix is to set the context of the series of books we have written in
data management, data mining, and data security. Our series started back in 1997 with our book on
Data Management Systems: Evolution and Interoperation (Thuraisingham, 1997). Our subsequent
books have evolved from this rst book. We have essentially repeated the Chapter 1 of our rst book
in the Appendix of our subsequent books. The purpose of this appendix is to provide an overview
of data management systems and to show how the eld has evolved over the years: from data ...