Identification and Management of Distributed Data

Preface

The motivation for this book was to provide students and future information engineers with a useful collection of Internet standards, technologies, and techniques that derive from research projects for the management of distributed data. We wrote the book during a very exciting period of the Internet. The ubiquitous access of the Internet in daily life by all has allowed the emergence of new sorts of businesses, based on the staggering—and at times puzzling—amount of information on the Internet. Search engines, social networking, online advertising, and online commerce have been built on the aggregation and sharing of personal data. Carriers closely cooperate with content providers to allow a deeper integration between their services ...