Decision Support News
D. J. Power, Editor
October 13, 2013 Vol. 14, No. 21
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1) What is ACID and BASE in database theory?
2) Recent DSS News Headlines
3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers
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What is ACID and BASE in database theory?
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by Daniel Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
Data-driven and document-driven decision support systems
derive functionality from data stores and databases. Beginning
in the late 1990s, distributed computing facilitated deployment
of new database architectures and led to post-relational
databases. Storing and processing data across multiple computing
nodes however creates potential problems in transaction processing.
The expansion of the Internet and the need for managing larger
data stores faster also led to innovation. In 2000, Eric Brewer
popularized the acronym "BASE" in his keynote address at the ACM
Symposium titled “Towards Robust Distributed Systems”. Brewer
also explained the CAP Theorum. CAP refers to Consistency,
Availability and Partition Tolerance. The theorum asserts a
distributed, networked system can have only two of these three
properties. How are these concepts relevant to decision support?
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
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10/11/2013 HEC Paris and IBM create new MBA curriculum focused on big data/business analytics. Check release.
10/10/2013 SAP named a category leader in data management, Business Intelligence and Basel III by Chartis. Check release.
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3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers/Books
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1. SIGDSS Workshop "Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision Support" December 15, 2013 in Milan,
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2. DSI Annual meeting, Baltimore, MD Nov. 16-19, 2013
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3. Deadline December 9, 2013 Call for papers: Group Decision Making and
Web 3.0, Toulouse. Click here
4. ICIS December 15-18, 2013 Click here
5. Deadline December 15, 2013. Call for papers: DSS 2.0 – Supporting decision making with new technologies, Paris, June 2-5, 2014 Click here
Order Dan Power's new book: Decision Support, Analytics, and Business Intelligence, Second Edition
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