The aim of this research based book is to highlight the importance of real-time data warehousing (RTDW) to increase operational business intelligence in large organizations. We present state-of-the art survey and a comprehensive comparative analysis in three areas: (1) RTDW frameworks, (2) real-time data acquisition technologies, and (3) data warehouse multidimensional conceptual modeling (MCM) techniques. We also discuss some future research directions and open problems related to RTDW. In our point of view, semi-structured databases (i.e., XML) have greater capability to incorporate...

Android is a brand new open source mobile Operating System (OS) that combines and builds upon parts of many different open source projects. This OS was erected by Google for mobile devices built on the Linux kernel platform by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) in November, 2007. This book is appropriate for the developers starting out new Android project, as well as for professional programmers. The aim of this book is to enhance research and development in the field of Android mobile technology. With the help of UML diagrams and code examples, we explain how to design and develop a highly...