M. Tamer Özsu is a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been conducting research in distributed data management for thirty years. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals and book series, and is also the co-editor-in-chief, with Ling Liu, of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Patrick Valduriez is a senior researcher at INRIA, France and the head of the Zenith research group pursuing research in scientific data management in distributed systems. He has also served as a professor of computer science at University Paris 6. He has authored and co-authored over 200 technical papers and several books.

From the reviews of the third edition:“This is an excellent book that provides an in-depth overview of all issues related to distributed data management. … Each chapter … ends with a conclusion that provides a nice summary and additional reflections, as well as bibliographic notes. … The book ends with an extensive list of references and an index. … Instructors of advanced database courses could use this book as a textbook. It would also interest researchers on topics related to distributed data management. I highly recommend this excellent book.” (Sergio Ilarri, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2011)

• Introduction.- Background.- Distributed Database Design.- Database Integration.- Data and Access Control.- Overview of Query Processing.- Query Decomposition and Data Localization.- Optimization of Distributed Queries.- Multidatabase Query Processing.- Introduction to Transaction Management.- Distributed Concurrency Control.- Distributed DBMS Reliability.- Data Replication.- Parallel Database Systems.- Distributed Object Database Management.- Peer-to-Peer Data Management.- Web Data Management.- Current Issues.- References.- Index

M. Tamer Özsu is a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been conducting research in distributed data management for thirty years. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals and book series, and is also the co-editor-in-chief, with Ling Liu, of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Patrick Valduriez is a senior researcher at INRIA, France and the head of the Zenith research group pursuing research in scientific data management in distributed systems. He has also served as a professor of computer science at University Paris 6. He has authored and co-authored over 200 technical papers and several books.

From the reviews of the third edition:“This is an excellent book that provides an in-depth overview of all issues related to distributed data management. … Each chapter … ends with a conclusion that provides a nice summary and additional reflections, as well as bibliographic notes. … The book ends with an extensive list of references and an index. … Instructors of advanced database courses could use this book as a textbook. It would also interest researchers on topics related to distributed data management. I highly recommend this excellent book.” (Sergio Ilarri, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2011)

• Introduction.- Background.- Distributed Database Design.- Database Integration.- Data and Access Control.- Overview of Query Processing.- Query Decomposition and Data Localization.- Optimization of Distributed Queries.- Multidatabase Query Processing.- Introduction to Transaction Management.- Distributed Concurrency Control.- Distributed DBMS Reliability.- Data Replication.- Parallel Database Systems.- Distributed Object Database Management.- Peer-to-Peer Data Management.- Web Data Management.- Current Issues.- References.- Index

M. Tamer Özsu is a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been conducting research in distributed data management for thirty years. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals and book series, and is also the co-editor-in-chief, with Ling Liu, of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Patrick Valduriez is a senior researcher at INRIA, France and the head of the Zenith research group pursuing research in scientific data management in distributed systems. He has also served as a professor of computer science at University Paris 6. He has authored and co-authored over 200 technical papers and several books.

From the reviews of the third edition:“This is an excellent book that provides an in-depth overview of all issues related to distributed data management. … Each chapter … ends with a conclusion that provides a nice summary and additional reflections, as well as bibliographic notes. … The book ends with an extensive list of references and an index. … Instructors of advanced database courses could use this book as a textbook. It would also interest researchers on topics related to distributed data management. I highly recommend this excellent book.” (Sergio Ilarri, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2011)

• Introduction.- Background.- Distributed Database Design.- Database Integration.- Data and Access Control.- Overview of Query Processing.- Query Decomposition and Data Localization.- Optimization of Distributed Queries.- Multidatabase Query Processing.- Introduction to Transaction Management.- Distributed Concurrency Control.- Distributed DBMS Reliability.- Data Replication.- Parallel Database Systems.- Distributed Object Database Management.- Peer-to-Peer Data Management.- Web Data Management.- Current Issues.- References.- Index