Database Engineering Focusing on Modern Dynamism Crises

Researchers in several areas (sociology, philosophy, and psychology), among them Herbert Spencer and Abraham Maslow, attribute human actions resulting in continual environmental changes to the search for the satisfaction of individual and collective needs. In other fields of science, this behavior represents a challenge in ethical researches on concepts, methodologies, and technologies aimed at optimizing and qualifying the actions involved in these continual changes to obtain better results. Specifically in computer science, software engineering is a critical sub-area for these researches and their application (Lehman & Stenning, 1997), since it involves the construction of models and orientation for their use in the development of resources, such as software, to support the user’s needs (Perry & Staudenmayer, 1994). Databases are included in this context as a component for data storage. Considering the premise of continuous changes (Table 1) and the human needs involved (Khan & Khang, 2004), the consequences for software and for the database used are obvious. In the field of computational science, these changes in the modern world are reflected in evolutionary features for software and databases (Brereton, Budgen & Bennet, 1999), based on database concepts, structures, and processes that allow for rapid, albeit not traumatic, shifts to new industrial, commercial, or scientific systems (Mcfadden, Hoffer & Prescott, 1999) in new contexts (temporal scenarios) (Camolesi, 2004). BACKGROUND