The recording of symbolic data has become a common practice with the advances in database technologies. This paper shows hard and fuzzy relational clustering in order to partition symbolic data. These methods optimize objective functions based on a dissimilarity function. The distance used is a...

Purpose – The paper aims to present a study of the question of customer information management in business‐to‐business (B2B) firms, what distinguishes firms that manage customer information well, and what internal processes are necessary for success. Design/methodology/approach – This...

The e‐business model has become an integral feature of business practice. Its existence has created an extra electronic layer to business relationships. This has facilitated close partnerships to add unique and complex electronic components to their relationships that are not easily copied by...

Benchmarks are the vital tools in the performance measurement and evaluation of database management systems (DBMS), including the relational database management systems (RDBMS) and the object‐oriented/object‐relational database management systems (OODBMS/ORDBMS). Standard synthetic...