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Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context, by Jim Melton and Stephen Buxton -- Coming soon from Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier.

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Querying XML teaches software developers and systems architects the most useful approaches to querying XML documents and repositories. This book will also help managers and project leaders grasp how "querying XML" fits into the larger context of querying and XML. Querying XML provides a comprehensive background from fundamental concepts (What is XML?) to data models (the Infoset, PSVI, XQuery Data Model), to APIs (querying XML from SQL or Java) and more.

Table of Contents:

• Part I: XML: Documents and Data;
• Part II: Metadata and XML: Metadata; Standards for structure+type metadata: Document Type Definitions and XML Schema; The "Information Set";
• Part III: Managing and Storing XML for Querying;
• Part IV: Querying XML: XQuery 1.0 Definition; XQueryX; XQuery APIs; SQL/XML;
• Part V: Querying and the World-Wide Web: Communication: XML on the Internet; Internationalization: putting the W in WWW;
• Part VI: Appendices; Examples.

Commonsense Reasoning, by Erik T. Mueller -- Coming soon from Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier.

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Commonsense Reasoning is a detailed, high-level reference on logic-based commonsense reasoning. It uses the event calculus, a highly powerful and usable tool for commonsense reasoning, which Erik T. Mueller demonstrates as the most effective tool for the broadest range of applications. He provides an up-to-date work promoting the use of the event calculus for commonsense reasoning, and brings together scattered information from numerous valuable sources. Mueller shares the knowledge gained in using the event calculus and extends the literature with detailed event calculus solutions to problems that span many areas of the commonsense world.

Table of Contents:
Nonlogical Methods for Commonsense Reasoning; Logics for Commonsense Reasoning; Applications of the Event Calculus; Logical Foundations; The Event Calculus; The Effects of Events; The Triggering of Events; The Commonsense Law of Inertia; Indirect Effects of Events; Continuous Change; Concurrent Events; Nondeterministic Effects of Events; Space; The Mental States of Agents; Closing Remarks.

ISBN: 0123693888
January 2006
Hard Cover
432 Pages
List Price: $49.95