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SECTION I INDUSTRIAL DATABASES AND APPLICATIONS; SECTION II GENERIC DATABASE MODELING.

About the Author

in Ma received a Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 2001 and is currently a full professor in the College of Information Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China. His current research interests include intelligent database systems, knowledge management, semantic Web and XML, life science data management, e-learning systems, intelligent planning and scheduling, decision making, engineering database modeling, and enterprise information systems. Dr. Ma has published over 40 papers in international journals, conferences, edited books and encyclopedias in these areas since 1998.