TheReading Experience Database

Building a Federated Database: the Femus Experience

The increased avalaibility of various databases in large corporations has created the need to federate the databases into loosely coupled collections of autonomous systems to allow controlled sharing of information and at the same time preserve the autonomy of each participant. Traditional distributed database (DDB) research has provided the earliest solutions to information sharing in distribu...

Quality of Experience in Database Systems

Iranian Brain Imaging Database: A Neuropsychiatric Database of Healthy Brain

Introduction: The Iranian Brain Imaging Database (IBID) was initiated in 2017, with 5 major goals: provide researchers easy access to a neuroimaging database, provide normative quantitative measures of the brain for clinical research purposes, study the aging profile of the brain, examine the association of brain structure and function, and join the ENIGMA consortium. Many prestigious databases...

The O++ Database Programming Language: Implementation and Experience

Ode is a database system and environment based on the object paradigm. The database is defined, queried and manipulated using the database programming language O++, which is based on C++. The O++ compiler translates O++ programs into C++ programs which contain calls to the Ode object manager. The current O++ implementation provides facilities for creating and manipulating persistent objects, an...

Distributed Database Management for an Obstetrical Service: The BabyTracker Experience

An Obstetrical service is an ideal model of a structured clinical data set. Typically, patients undergo a similar course of routine prenatal care spanning six to nine months that leads to a common outcome (i.e. vaginal delivery). At various clinical milestones toward the end of the pregnancy and shortly thereafter, a series of standard documents must be generated in order to complete an obstetr...