"All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney. This is one of the greatest quotes made by a man who knew how to dream and dream big! Imagine no Disney World or Disney Land, No Mickey or Mini mouse. What is it in your life that you are living without because you have not had the courage to pursue it?...

The explosive growth of RDF data on the Semantic Web drives the need for novel database techniques that can efficiently store and query large RDF datasets. To provide good performance and scalability of query processing, many existing RDF stores use an RDBMS as a backend to manage RDF data....

The Asian road to the market has generally been seen as a model of success and the object of widespread admiration. But even in countries experiencing sustained growth, there have been unmistakable signs of deep social strain. This book evaluates the experience and debunks widespread myths about Asian growth....