Download the full version and explore a variety of ebooks

or textbooks at https://ebookultra.com

Selected Readings on Database Technologies and

Applications Terry Halpin

_____ Tap the link below to start your download _____

https://ebookultra.com/download/selected-readings-on-
database-technologies-and-applications-terry-halpin/

Find ebooks or textbooks at ebookultra.com today!

 We believe these products will be a great fit for you. Click
the link to download now, or visit ebookultra.com
to discover even more!

Selected Readings on Telecommunication and Networking

Jairo Gutierrez

https://ebookultra.com/download/selected-readings-on-
telecommunication-and-networking-jairo-gutierrez/

information modeling and relational databases Second

Edition Terry Halpin

https://ebookultra.com/download/information-modeling-and-relational-
databases-second-edition-terry-halpin/

Selected Readings on Information Technology and Business

Systems Management 1st Edition In Lee

https://ebookultra.com/download/selected-readings-on-information-
technology-and-business-systems-management-1st-edition-in-lee/

Object Role Modeling Fundamentals A Practical Guide to

Data Modeling with ORM First Edition Terry Halpin

https://ebookultra.com/download/object-role-modeling-fundamentals-a-
practical-guide-to-data-modeling-with-orm-first-edition-terry-halpin/
Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings Sixth
Edition Marianne M. Jennings

https://ebookultra.com/download/business-ethics-case-studies-and-
selected-readings-sixth-edition-marianne-m-jennings/

Greek and Roman Military Writers Selected Readings

Routledge Classical Translations Brian Campbell

https://ebookultra.com/download/greek-and-roman-military-writers-
selected-readings-routledge-classical-translations-brian-campbell/

Philosophy of Religion Selected Readings 4. ed. Edition

Michael L. Peterson

https://ebookultra.com/download/philosophy-of-religion-selected-
readings-4-ed-edition-michael-l-peterson/

Handbook of Research on Modern Systems Analysis and Design

Technologies and Applications Mahbubur Rahman Syed

https://ebookultra.com/download/handbook-of-research-on-modern-
systems-analysis-and-design-technologies-and-applications-mahbubur-
rahman-syed/

MySQL PHP database applications 2nd ed Edition Brad Bulger

https://ebookultra.com/download/mysql-php-database-applications-2nd-
ed-edition-brad-bulger/
Selected Readings on Database Technologies and
Applications Terry Halpin Digital Instant Download
Author(s): Terry Halpin, Terry Halpin
ISBN(s): 9781605660981, 1605660981
Edition: illustrated edition
File Details: PDF, 13.62 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
Selected Readings on
Database Technologies
and Applications
Terry Halpin
Neumont University, USA

InformatIon scIence reference

Hershey • New York
Director of Editorial Content: Kristin Klinger
Managing Development Editor: Kristin M. Roth
Senior Managing Editor: Jennifer Neidig
Managing Editor: Jamie Snavely
Assistant Managing Editor: Carole Coulson
Typesetter: Carole Coulson
Cover Design: Lisa Tosheff
Printed at: Yurchak Printing Inc.

Published in the United States of America by

Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global)
701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Suite 200
Hershey PA 17033
Tel: 717-533-8845
Fax: 717-533-8661
E-mail: cust@igi-global.com
Web site: http://www.igi-global.com

and in the United Kingdom by

Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global)
3 Henrietta Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8LU
Tel: 44 20 7240 0856
Fax: 44 20 7379 0609
Web site: http://www.eurospanbookstore.com

Copyright © 2009 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or distributed in any form or by
any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without written permission from the publisher.
Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does
not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Selected readings on database technologies and applications / Terry Halpin, editor.

p. cm.

Summary: "This book offers research articles focused on key issues concerning the development, design, and analysis of databases"--
Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60566-098-1 (hbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-60566-099-8 (ebook)

1. Databases. 2. Database design. I. Halpin, T. A.

QA76.9.D32S45 2009

005.74--dc22

2008020494

British Cataloguing in Publication Data

A Cataloguing in Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.

All work contributed to this book set is original material. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors, but not necessarily of
the publisher.

If a library purchased a print copy of this publication, please go to http://www.igi-global.com/agreement for information on activating the
library's complimentary electronic access to this publication.
Table of Contents

Prologue............................................................................................................................................ xviii

About the Editor............................................................................................................................. xxvii

Section I
Fundamental Concepts and Theories

Chapter I
Conceptual Modeling Solutions for the Data Warehouse....................................................................... 1
Stefano Rizzi, DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy

Chapter II
Databases Modeling of Engineering Information................................................................................. 21
Z. M. Ma, Northeastern University, China

Chapter III
An Overview of Learning Object Repositories.................................................................................... 44
Argiris Tzikopoulos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Nikos Manouselis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium

Chapter IV
Discovering Quality Knowledge from Relational Databases............................................................... 65
M. Mehdi Owrang O., American University, USA
 Section II
Development and Design Methodologies

Chapter V
Business Data Warehouse: The Case of Wal-Mart .............................................................................. 85
Indranil Bose, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lam Albert Kar Chun, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leung Vivien Wai Yue, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Li Hoi Wan Ines, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wong Oi Ling Helen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Chapter VI
A Database Project in a Small Company (or How the Real World Doesn’t Always
Follow the Book) ................................................................................................................................. 95
Efrem Mallach, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

Chapter VII
Conceptual Modeling for XML: A Myth or a Reality ........................................................................112
Sriram Mohan, Indiana University, USA
Arijit Sengupta, Wright State University, USA

Chapter VIII
Designing Secure Data Warehouses................................................................................................... 134
Rodolfo Villarroel, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile
Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Juan Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Mario Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Chapter IX
Web Data Warehousing Convergence: From Schematic to Systematic ............................................. 148
D. Xuan Le, La Trobe University, Australia
J. Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Section III
Tools and Technologies

Chapter X
Visual Query Languages, Representation Techniques, and Data Models.......................................... 174
Maria Chiara Caschera, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Arianna D’Ulizia, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Leonardo Tininini, IASI-CNR, Italy
Chapter XI
Application of Decision Tree as a Data Mining Tool in a Manufacturing System ............................ 190
S. A. Oke, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Chapter XII
A Scalable Middleware for Web Databases ....................................................................................... 206
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Zaki Malik, Virginia Tech, USA
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech, USA
Lori Korff, Virginia Tech, USA

Chapter XIII
A Formal Verification and Validation Approach for Real-Time Databases ....................................... 234
Pedro Fernandes Ribeiro Neto, Universidade do Estado–do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Maria Lígia Barbosa Perkusich, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Brazil
Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Angelo Perkusich, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Chapter XIV
A Generalized Comparison of Open Source and Commercial Database Management Systems ...... 252
Theodoros Evdoridis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Section IV
Application and Utilization

Chapter XV
An Approach to Mining Crime Patterns ............................................................................................ 268
Sikha Bagui, The University of West Florida, USA

Chapter XVI
Bioinformatics Web Portals ............................................................................................................... 296
Mario Cannataro, Università “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, Italy
Pierangelo Veltri, Università “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, Italy

Chapter XVII
An XML-Based Database for Knowledge Discovery: Definition and Implementation .................... 305
Rosa Meo, Università di Torino, Italy
Giuseppe Psaila, Università di Bergamo, Italy

Chapter XVIII
Enhancing UML Models: A Domain Analysis Approach .................................................................. 330
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Chapter XIX
Seismological Data Warehousing and Mining: A Survey .................................................................. 352
Gerasimos Marketos,University of Piraeus, Greece
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Ioannis S. Kalogeras, National Observatory of Athens, Greece

Section V
Critical Issues

Chapter XX
Business Information Integration from XML and Relational Databases Sources ............................. 369
Ana María Fermoso Garcia, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain
Roberto Berjón Gallinas, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain

Chapter XXI
Security Threats in Web-Powered Databases and Web Portals ......................................................... 395
Theodoros Evdoridis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Chapter XXII
Empowering the OLAP Technology to Support Complex Dimension Hierarchies........................... 403
Svetlana Mansmann, University of Konstanz, Germany
Marc H. Scholl, University of Konstanz, Germany

Chapter XXIII
NetCube: Fast, Approximate Database Queries Using Bayesian Networks ...................................... 424
Dimitris Margaritis, Iowa State University, USA
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University, USA

Chapter XXIV
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements ............................. 450
Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Section VI
Emerging Trends

Chapter XXV
Rule Discovery from Textual Data .................................................................................................... 471
Shigeaki Sakurai, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Chapter XXVI
Action Research with Internet Database Tools .................................................................................. 490
Bruce L. Mann, Memorial University, Canada

Chapter XXVII
Database High Availability: An Extended Survey ............................................................................. 499
Moh’d A. Radaideh, Abu Dhab Police – Ministry of Interior, United Arab Emirates
Hayder Al-Ameed, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

Index .................................................................................................................................................. 528

Detailed Table of Contents

Prologue............................................................................................................................................ xviii

About the Editor............................................................................................................................. xxvii

Section I
Fundamental Concepts and Theories

Chapter I
Conceptual Modeling Solutions for the Data Warehouse....................................................................... 1
Stefano Rizzi, DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy

This opening chapter provides an overview of the fundamental role that conceptual modeling plays in data
warehouse design. Specifically, research focuses on a conceptual model called the DFM (Dimensional
Fact Model), which suits the variety of modeling situations that may be encountered in real projects
of small to large complexity. The aim of the chapter is to propose a comprehensive set of solutions for
conceptual modeling according to the DFM and to give the designer a practical guide for applying them
in the context of a design methodology. Other issues discussed include descriptive and cross-dimension
attributes; convergences; shared, incomplete, recursive, and dynamic hierarchies; multiple and optional
arcs; and additivity.

Chapter II
Databases Modeling of Engineering Information................................................................................. 21
Z. M. Ma, Northeastern University, China

As information systems have become the nerve center of current computer-based engineering, the need
for engineering information modeling has become imminent. Databases are designed to support data
storage, processing, and retrieval activities related to data management, and database systems are the
key to implementing engineering information modeling. It should be noted that, however, the current
mainstream databases are mainly used for business applications. Some new engineering requirements
challenge today’s database technologies and promote their evolution. Database modeling can be clas-
sified into two levels: conceptual data modeling and logical database modeling. In this chapter, the
author tries to identify the requirements for engineering information modeling and then investigates the
satisfactions of current database models to these requirements at two levels: conceptual data models
and logical database models.
Chapter III
An Overview of Learning Object Repositories ................................................................................... 44
Argiris Tzikopoulos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Nikos Manouselis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium

Learning objects are systematically organized and classified in online databases, which are termed learn-
ing object repositories (LORs). Currently, a rich variety of LORs is operating online, offering access
to wide collections of learning objects. These LORs cover various educational levels and topics, store
learning objects and/or their associated metadata descriptions, and offer a range of services that may
vary from advanced search and retrieval of learning objects to intellectual property rights (IPR) manage-
ment. Until now, there has not been a comprehensive study of existing LORs that will give an outline of
their overall characteristics. For this purpose, this chapter presents the initial results from a survey of 59
well-known repositories with learning resources. The most important characteristics of surveyed LORs
are examined and useful conclusions about their current status of development are made.

Chapter IV
Discovering Quality Knowledge from Relational Databases .............................................................. 65
M. Mehdi Owrang O., American University, USA

Current database technology involves processing a large volume of data in order to discover new knowl-
edge. However, knowledge discovery on just the most detailed and recent data does not reveal the long-
term trends. Relational databases create new types of problems for knowledge discovery since they are
normalized to avoid redundancies and update anomalies, which make them unsuitable for knowledge
discovery. A key issue in any discovery system is to ensure the consistency, accuracy, and completeness
of the discovered knowledge. This selection describes the aforementioned problems associated with the
quality of the discovered knowledge and provides solutions to avoid them.

Section II
Development and Design Methodologies

Chapter V
Business Data Warehouse: The Case of Wal-Mart .............................................................................. 85
Indranil Bose, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lam Albert Kar Chun, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leung Vivien Wai Yue, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Li Hoi Wan Ines, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wong Oi Ling Helen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The retailing giant Wal-Mart owes its success to the efficient use of information technology in its op-
erations. One of the noteworthy advances made by Wal-Mart is the development of a data warehouse,
which gives the company a strategic advantage over its competitors. In this chapter, the planning and
implementation of the Wal-Mart data warehouse is described and its integration with the operational
systems is discussed. The chapter also highlights some of the problems encountered in the developmental
process of the data warehouse. The implications of the recent advances in technologies such as RFID,
which is likely to play an important role in the Wal-Mart data warehouse in future, are also detailed in
this chapter.

Chapter VI
A Database Project in a Small Company (or How the Real World Doesn’t Always
Follow the Book) ................................................................................................................................. 95
Efrem Mallach, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

The selection presents a small consulting company’s experience in the design and implementation of a
database and associated information retrieval system. The company’s choices are explained within the
context of the firm’s needs and constraints. Issues associated with development methods are discussed,
along with problems that arose from not following proper development disciplines. Ultimately, the author
asserts that while the system provided real value to its users, the use of proper development disciplines
could have reduced some problems while not reducing that value.

Chapter VII
Conceptual Modeling for XML: A Myth or a Reality ........................................................................112
Sriram Mohan, Indiana University, USA
Arijit Sengupta, Wright State University, USA

Conceptual design is independent of the final platform and the medium of implementation, and is usu-
ally in a form that is understandable to managers and other personnel who may not be familiar with the
low-level implementation details, but have a major influence in the development process. Although a
strong design phase is involved in most current application development processes, conceptual design
for XML has not been explored significantly in literature or in practice. In this chapter, the reader is
introduced to existing methodologies for modeling XML. A discussion is then presented comparing and
contrasting their capabilities and deficiencies, and delineating the future trend in conceptual design for
XML applications.

Chapter VIII
Designing Secure Data Warehouses................................................................................................... 134
Rodolfo Villarroel, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile
Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Juan Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Mario Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

As an organization’s reliance on information systems governed by databases and data warehouses (DWs)
increases, so does the need for quality and security within these systems. Since organizations generally
deal with sensitive information such as patient diagnoses or even personal beliefs, a final DW solution
should restrict the users that can have access to certain specific information. This chapter presents a
comparison of six design methodologies for secure systems. Also presented are a proposal for the design
of secure DWs and an explanation of how the conceptual model can be implemented with Oracle Label
Security (OLS10g).
Chapter IX
Web Data Warehousing Convergence: From Schematic to Systematic ............................................. 148
D. Xuan Le, La Trobe University, Australia
J. Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

This chapter proposes a data warehouse integration technique that combines data and documents from
different underlying documents and database design approaches. Well-defined and structured data,
semi-structured data, and unstructured data are integrated into a Web data warehouse system and user
specified requirements and data sources are combined to assist with the definitions of the hierarchical
structures. A conceptual integrated data warehouse model is specified based on a combination of user
requirements and data source structure, which necessitates the creation of a logical integrated data ware-
house model. A case study is then developed into a prototype in a Web-based environment that enables
the evaluation. The evaluation of the proposed integration Web data warehouse methodology includes
the verification of correctness of the integrated data, and the overall benefits of utilizing this proposed
integration technique.

Section III
Tools and Technologies

Chapter X
Visual Query Languages, Representation Techniques, and Data Models.......................................... 174
Maria Chiara Caschera, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Arianna D’Ulizia, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Leonardo Tininini, IASI-CNR, Italy

An easy, efficient, and effective way to retrieve stored data is obviously one of the key issues of any
information system. In the last few years, considerable effort has been devoted to the definition of more
intuitive, visual-based querying paradigms, attempting to offer a good trade-off between expressive-
ness and intuitiveness. In this chapter, the authors analyze the main characteristics of visual languages
specifically designed for querying information systems, concentrating on conventional relational data-
bases, but also considering information systems with a less rigid structure such as Web resources storing
XML documents. Two fundamental aspects of visual query languages are considered: the adopted visual
representation technique and the underlying data model, possibly specialized to specific application
contexts.

Chapter XI
Application of Decision Tree as a Data Mining Tool in a Manufacturing System ............................ 190
S. A. Oke, University of Lagos, Nigeria

This selection demonstrates the application of decision tree, a data mining tool, in the manufacturing
system. Data mining has the capability for classification, prediction, estimation, and pattern recognition
by using manufacturing databases. Databases of manufacturing systems contain significant information
for decision making, which could be properly revealed with the application of appropriate data mining
techniques. Decision trees are employed for identifying valuable information in manufacturing databases.
Practically, industrial managers would be able to make better use of manufacturing data at little or no
extra investment in data manipulation cost. The work shows that it is valuable for managers to mine
data for better and more effective decision making.

Chapter XII
A Scalable Middleware for Web Databases ....................................................................................... 206
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Zaki Malik, Virginia Tech, USA
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech, USA
Lori Korff, Virginia Tech, USA

The emergence of Web databases has introduced new challenges related to their organization, access,
integration, and interoperability. New approaches and techniques are needed to provide across-the-board
transparency for accessing and manipulating Web databases irrespective of their data models, platforms,
locations, or systems. In meeting these needs, it is necessary to build a middleware infrastructure to sup-
port flexible tools for information space organization communication facilities, information discovery,
content description, and assembly of data from heterogeneous sources. This chapter describes a scalable
middleware for efficient data and application access built using available technologies. The resulting
system, WebFINDIT, is a scalable and uniform infrastructure for locating and accessing heterogeneous
and autonomous databases and applications.

Chapter XIII
A Formal Verification and Validation Approach for Real-Time Databases ....................................... 234
Pedro Fernandes Ribeiro Neto, Universidade do Estado–do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Maria Lígia Barbosa Perkusich, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Brazil
Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Angelo Perkusich, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Real-time database-management systems provide efficient support for applications with data and trans-
actions that have temporal constraints, such as industrial automation, aviation, and sensor networks,
among others. Many issues in real-time databases have brought interest to research in this area, such
as: concurrence control mechanisms, scheduling policy, and quality of services management. However,
considering the complexity of these applications, it is of fundamental importance to conceive formal
verification and validation techniques for real-time database systems. This chapter presents a formal
verification and validation method for real-time databases. Such a method can be applied to database
systems developed for computer integrated manufacturing, stock exchange, network-management, and
command-and-control applications and multimedia systems.

Chapter XIV
A Generalized Comparison of Open Source and Commercial Database Management Systems ...... 252
Theodoros Evdoridis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece
This chapter attempts to bring to light the field of one of the less popular branches of the open source
software family, which is the open source database management systems branch. In view of the objec-
tive, the background of these systems is first briefly described followed by presentation of a fair generic
database model. Subsequently and in order to present these systems under all their possible features, the
main system representatives of both open source and commercial origins will be compared in relation
to this model, and evaluated appropriately. By adopting such an approach, the chapter’s initial concern
is to ensure that the nature of database management systems in general can be apprehended. The overall
orientation leads to an understanding that the gap between open and closed source database management
systems has been significantly narrowed, thus demystifying the respective commercial products.

Section IV
Application and Utilization

Chapter XV
An Approach to Mining Crime Patterns ............................................................................................ 268
Sikha Bagui, The University of West Florida, USA

This selection presents a knowledge discovery effort to retrieve meaningful information about crime from
a U.S. state database. The raw data were preprocessed, and data cubes were created using Structured
Query Language (SQL). The data cubes then were used in deriving quantitative generalizations and for
further analysis of the data. An entropy-based attribute relevance study was undertaken to determine
the relevant attributes. A machine learning software called WEKA was used for mining association
rules, developing a decision tree, and clustering. SOM was used to view multidimensional clusters on
a regular two-dimensional grid.

Chapter XVI
Bioinformatics Web Portals ............................................................................................................... 296
Mario Cannataro, Università “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, Italy
Pierangelo Veltri, Università “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, Italy

Bioinformatics involves the design and development of advanced algorithms and computational platforms
to solve problems in biomedicine (Jones & Pevzner, 2004). It also deals with methods for acquiring,
storing, retrieving and analysing biological data obtained by querying biological databases or provided
by experiments. Bioinformatics applications involve different datasets as well as different software
tools and algorithms. Such applications need semantic models for basic software components and need
advanced scientific portal services able to aggregate such different components and to hide their details
and complexity from the final user. For instance, proteomics applications involve datasets, either pro-
duced by experiments or available as public databases, as well as a huge number of different software
tools and algorithms. To use such applications, it is required to know both biological issues related to
data generation and results interpretation and informatics requirements related to data analysis.

Chapter XVII
An XML-Based Database for Knowledge Discovery: Definition and Implementation .................... 305
Rosa Meo, Università di Torino, Italy
Giuseppe Psaila, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Inductive databases have been proposed as general purpose databases to support the KDD process.
Unfortunately, the heterogeneity of the discovered patterns and of the different conceptual tools used
to extract them from source data make integration in a unique framework difficult. In this chapter, us-
ing XML as the unifying framework for inductive databases is explored, and a new model, XML for
data mining (XDM), is proposed. The basic features of the model are presented, based on the concepts
of data item (source data and patterns) and statement (used to manage data and derive patterns). This
model uses XML namespaces (to allow the effective coexistence and extensibility of data mining opera-
tors) and XML schema, by means of which the schema, state and integrity constraints of an inductive
database are defined.

Chapter XVIII
Enhancing UML Models: A Domain Analysis Approach .................................................................. 330
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

UML has been largely adopted as a standard modeling language. The emergence of UML from different
modeling languages has caused a wide variety of completeness and correctness problems in UML mod-
els. Several methods have been proposed for dealing with correctness issues, mainly providing internal
consistency rules, but ignoring correctness and completeness with respect to the system requirements
and the domain constraints. This chapter proposes the adoption of a domain analysis approach called
application-based domain modeling (ADOM) to address the completeness and correction problems of
UML models. Experimental results from a study which checks the quality of application models when
utilizing ADOM on UML suggest that the proposed domain helps in creating more complete models
without compromising comprehension.

Chapter XIX
Seismological Data Warehousing and Mining: A Survey .................................................................. 352
Gerasimos Marketos,University of Piraeus, Greece
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Ioannis S. Kalogeras, National Observatory of Athens, Greece

Earthquake data is comprised of an ever increasing collection of earth science information for post-
processing analysis. Earth scientists, as well as local and national administration officers, use these data
collections for scientific and planning purposes. In this chapter, the authors discuss the architecture of a
seismic data management and mining system (SDMMS) for quick and easy data collection, processing,
and visualization. The SDMMS architecture includes a seismological database for efficient and effective
querying and a seismological data warehouse for OLAP analysis and data mining. Template schemes are
provided for these two components and examples of how these components support decision making are
given. A comparative survey of existing operational or prototype SDMMS is also offered.
Exploring the Variety of Random
Documents with Different Content
ease, in the society of gentlemen, and keep himself au courant with
the progress of the world.
This transaction having been formally carried out by the ever-zealous
and kindly Paul, he was placed in receipt of a missive, signed by the
secretary, and announcing that he had been elected to be an
honorary member of the New Holland Club.
He was introduced next day by Mr. Frankston himself, and
discovered that he had the entrée to a handsome commodious
building, with a larger extent of lawn and shrubbery than he had
ever seen attached to an institution of the nature before. The
internal arrangements were familiar, being precisely the same as
those of the London Club, to which he had been elected about five
years after nomination.
There were the same grave, decorous servants, the same silent
appreciation of the same style of highly respectable cookery, the
same comfortable sitting-room, with—oh, pleasant sight!—good
store of magazines, Punches, Saturdays, Pall Malls, and all the
priceless luxuries of refined, if ephemeral, journalism. There was the
same deserted library, the same populous smoking-room, with
billiard-room ditto. To a few members old Paul had introduced him,
and for the rest he was aware that he must take his chance.
He found, after a day or two, that he had small reason to fear of
isolation. A gentlemanlike stranger needs but the evidence of this
quality to procure friendly acquaintances, if not intimates, at any
club.
He was soon known as ‘a young fellow who had been sent out to old
Frankston, and was going to buy a station. A decent sort of fellow
belonging to swell people, and so on. Going to do wonders, and
make important changes. That will wear off—we’ve all passed
through that mill. He’ll settle down and take to wool and tallow
kindly, like all the rest of us, in good time.’
Mr. Neuchamp made the discovery that, if he had been less
obstinately bent upon separating himself from the presumably
prejudiced society of the new land, in the fervour of his philanthropy,
he might possibly have met with other colonists, who, like Paul
Frankston, would have shielded him from harm, and proffered him
good and true advice. In his new home he made the acquaintance of
more than one silver-haired pioneer, who, while gently parrying the
thrusts of his eager and somewhat communistic theories, quietly put
forward the dictates of long experience and successful practice.
Every one was disposed to be tolerant, agreeable, even friendly, to
the frank youngster, who was, in spite of his crotchets, evidently
‘good form.’ And Ernest realised fully, and rather unexpectedly, that
even in a colony it is possible for a stranger to fall among friends,
and that colonists are not invariably all stamped out of one pattern,
whatever anticipations may be compounded in the fancy of the
emigrating critic.
In another respect Ernest found that his club privileges were
valuable as well as luxurious. Among the squatters, who composed
the larger proportion of the members, he had the advantage of
hearing the question of pastoral property discussed with fullest
clearness and explanation, in all its bearings. No one evaded giving a
decided opinion upon the chances of investment, though, according
to temperament, and other causes, the answers were various. All
agreed, however, in one respect, namely, that stock had touched a
point of depression, below which it seemed wellnigh impossible to
fall. The great question, of course, was whether such properties
would ever rise, or whether such profits or losses, as the case might
be, must be accepted as permanently fixed.
‘I believe that cattle and sheep never will rise a penny higher during
our lifetime, particularly cattle,’ said a slight, elegant, cynical
squatter, with whom Ernest had made acquaintance. ‘It’s of course
nothing but what any one ought to have expected in this infernal
country. What is there to keep stock up, I ask? As for wool, South
America will grow three bales to our one directly; and cattle and
horses will be slaughtered for their hides, as they are there.’
‘What a grumbler you are, Croker!’ said a stout cheery-looking
youngster, with a long fair moustache and a smooth face; ‘you run
down the country like a rival agent-general. Why do you stay in it, if
it’s so bad?’
‘I’d leave to-morrow if I could get any one fool enough to buy my
runs; take my passage by the mail and never be heard of here
again.’
‘Well, you wouldn’t make a bad immigration agent, if the
Government wanted to appoint a prepossessing advertiser for
Europe.’
‘Agent! why, what do you see in me to make you think I should
accept any such office?’
‘Only, this strikes me, that if you went on talking there in your
dissatisfied strain, the acute common people would be certain that
you had some reason of your own for dissuading them from
embarking, and, so thinking, would pour in by crowds.’
‘Likely enough,’ sneered the avocat pour le diable. ‘There are only
two sets of people in this rascally country—rogues and fools.’
‘And to which division of society do I belong, may I ask?’ inquired
Ernest, rather amused at the uncompromising nature of the
denunciation.
‘Well, perhaps it’s not very polite, but, as you wish for the
information, I look upon you as a fool, for wishing to invest and
waste your life here; upon Compton as another, because he thinks
well of the place and people; and upon myself as the biggest one of
the lot for staying here, when I know so well what lies before the
whole rotten sham which calls itself a prosperous colony.’
‘Are matters then so bad?’ inquired Ernest, with some solicitude. ‘I
thought that the country was sound generally.’
Mr. Croker bestowed upon him a look of pity, mingled with contempt,
and in his most acid tones replied—
‘If you knew half as much as I do about the banks and mercantile
transactions, if you were a little behind the scenes as I have,
perhaps unluckily, been, you would know that a crash must come—
must come—within the next two or three years. I expect to see all
the banks in the hands of official assignees—they’ll be the only
solvent people. As for the merchants——’
‘Well, Mr. Jermyn Croker, “as for the merchants”?‘ said a jolly voice,
and Paul Frankston’s rubicund and reassuring countenance appeared
in the little group which had gathered to listen to the lamentations of
this latter-day seer—‘how about the merchants?’
‘Why,’ returned Mr. Croker, totally unabashed, ‘I expect to see you,
and Holder Brothers, and Deloraine and Company, and the rest,
begging in the streets.’
‘Ha! ha! ha! capital. Well done, Jermyn; put a half-crown or two in
your pocket against that day; I know you’d like to relieve honest
poverty. In the meantime come and dine with me on Thursday, will
you, and Compton, and Neuchamp? Better come soon, you know,
while that Roederer holds out. “Let us eat and drink,” you know, etc.
I say, what will you take for that cattle station of yours at Lake
Wondah? No use holding, you know, eh?’
‘Two pounds a head, for three thousand—calves given in.’
‘What dates?’
‘Cash down! Do you think I’d take any man’s bills now? No, not if
Levison himself were to endorse.’
‘Hem—ha—I learn the cattle are baddish, but the run is
understocked. How long will you leave it open?’
‘Oh! a month; three months if you like. Send me a cheque at any
time for six thousand and I will send you an order to take
possession; that is, as soon as I find the cheque all right.’
‘Ha! ha! not bad, Croker. It would be the first cheque of Paul
Frankston’s that ever was unpaid, so far. But you’ll not forget
Thursday, all of you, boys. We must try and shake Croker out of the
blues, or he’ll ruin the prospects of every squatter in New South
Wales.’
Mr. Neuchamp’s spirits were not so permanently affected by the
alarming vaticinations of Mr. Jermyn Croker as that he was
prevented from exhibiting Osmund’s figure and paces past the club
verandah that afternoon, followed by Mr. Windsor on Ben Bolt, on
his way to keep tryst with Antonia.
There may be a pleasanter species of locomotion, on a fine day, than
that afforded by a good horse in top condition over a smooth road,
in the immediate vicinity of a valued lady friend; let us say there
may be, but we have yet to discover it. The yacht, sweeping like a
seamew over the rippling, gaily-breaking billow, with courses free
and a merry company aboard, holds high excitement and joyous
freedom from the world’s cankering cares; the mail-phaeton with a
pair of well-bred steppers, or, better still, a high drag behind a fresh
team, well matched and better-mouthed, has its own peculiar
fascination as one is whirled through the summer air, or borne fast
and free through the gathering twilight homewards and
dinnerwards; even the smooth, irresponsible rush of the express
train yields not wholly disagreeable sensation of a victory over time
and space, as we whirl down the flying grades and round the
somewhat risque curves. But the personal element which the rider
shares with the bonny brown, or gallant grey, that strides with
joyous elasticity beneath him, had a thrill, in the ‘brave old days of
pleasure and pain,’ that dwarfed all other recreation. If anything can
intensify the feeling of joyance, it is the presence, similarly
equipped, of the possible princess. Then the fairy glamour is
complete—in the forest glades are the leaflets hung with diamonds,
the half-heard music is full of unearthly cadences—and as the
graceful form sways with movement of her eager palfrey, the good
knight’s head must be harder than his casque if heart and sword and
fame, past, present, and to come, be not laid, then and there, at the
feet of that ladye-fayre.
Miss Frankston rode, like most Australian girls, extremely well, and
with an unconscious grace and security of seat only to be attained
by those who, like her, had enjoyed the fullest opportunities of
practice from earliest childhood. Her dark bay mare was
thoroughbred, having been carried off by Mr. Frankston five minutes
after she lost her first race at Randwick. She had been indifferently
brought out, and, as a sporting friend said, was not fit to run for a
saddle in a shearers’ sweepstakes.
Antonia had taken a strong fancy to her personal appearance, and
Paul, as usual, had then and there gratified his pet. Waratah, which
was the filly’s name, proving after trial high-couraged and
temperate, had been installed at Morahmee as the description of
dumb favourite for which, in the springtime of life, the heart of a
woman is prone to crave.
On this particular afternoon it was proposed by Antonia that they
should ride to Bondi. ‘One of our show places, you must know,’ she
said; ‘and as the wind is coming in strong from the south, we shall
have the surf-thunder in perfection.’
‘Don’t ride into the breakers, that’s all, as you tried to do last time
we were there; if you and Waratah were carried off your feet, your
poor old father would never see his pet again.’
‘How do you know? You silly old papa. Can’t we both swim?’ said the
girl, laying her hand tenderly on his weather-beaten cheek; ‘you will
make Mr. Neuchamp think that I’m as wild as a hawk, instead of
being the sober-minded damsel that I really am. However, you need
not be afraid of my running any foolish risks to-day.’
The morning had been clear, with that suspicion of chill which told
that at no great distance from the coast there had been a strong
change of temperature. In and around Sydney the atmospheric
tendency had been softened into a composite of warmth, tempered
with freshness wonderful to experience and exhilarating past all
description.
The girl slacked the rein of her eager mare, and the excited horses
swept along the smooth, winding, dark-red road. Before them lay
the dark blue plain of ocean, fading into a misty, troubled haze
which met the far horizon. Gradually they increased their distance
from the gay gardens and villas of the more populous suburbs, the
spires and terraces of the city.
‘This has always been a favourite excursion of mine,’ said Antonia.
‘From the moment we pass Waverley and front the ocean in all his
wondrous strength and beauty, I feel as if I could shout for joy.
Morahmee is very pretty, but the harbour has always a kind of
lakelike prettiness to me; like the beds in a flower garden, while here
——’
‘And here?’ said Ernest, smiling, as the southern maiden fixed her
earnest gaze upon the wide glory of the unbounded sea, with a
passion and tenderness of regard which he had never observed
before.
‘Here,’ said she, ‘I feel lifted from my daily small pleasures and very
minute cares into a world of thought and vision, exalted, infinite in
grandeur and richness of colouring. My mind travels across that
region of mystery and wonder which the sea has ever been to
adventurous and practical minds, and all my heroes stand visibly
presented before me.’
‘Please to introduce me,’ said Ernest.
‘I see Walter Raleigh, courtier, poet, warrior, sailor, statesman, and
can mourn over him, as though I had seen that noblest of heads
upon the cruel block but yesterday. I see Francis Drake with his crisp
curls and dauntless spirit; I see Columbus ever calm, watchful,
indomitable; Ponce de Leon, pacing up and down his lonely beach at
Hispaniola, and can fancy him setting forth upon his half-melancholy,
half-ludicrous expedition to la fontain de jouvences; even Bimini—
oh! the many, many friends and companions that have ever been
associated with the sea in my mind since my earliest childhood.’
‘I am afraid,’ said Ernest, translating an unacknowledged thought,
‘that you must be something like a cocoa-palm, or your own Norfolk
Island pine, unable to exist out of hearing of the sound of the sea.’
‘I never thought about that,’ answered the girl with a half-curious
look, as if back from the unreal world. ‘I have always fancied that I
would do whatever other people would do. But we all have our pet
fancies, which we spoil like children, or which spoil us, and the
prosaic part of our life has to go on notwithstanding.’
‘Have you ever seen anything of the bush?’ inquired Ernest.
‘Nothing more than a very hasty visit to one or two of the inland
towns. I have always wished to go to a real station and see
something of bush life, but papa never could spare me sufficiently
long. What is it like? All riding about, from morning to night, and
being very sleepy in the evening?’
‘There is a good deal of that,’ said he, ‘but not quite so much as
might be thought. There is a great want of books, and of the habit
of reading, in many places, though I know of course that it is not
universal. But I think when I have a place of my own that I can
manage to unite work and play, real exertion with an intellectual
alternation, and this should be the perfection of existence.’
‘I don’t see why it could not be managed,’ said Antonia. ‘Many of the
young squatters have told me that they could not get books, and
that they were becoming frightfully ignorant; but I always said it
must be their own fault. Any one who must read will read, no matter
what their circumstances are.’
‘So I believe,’ answered Ernest, with most appreciative accents.
‘When young people, or people of any age, say they have not time
to read, it sounds in my ears as if they said that they had not time to
eat their dinners, or to bathe, or say their prayers, or to talk to their
friends. For these duties and other distractions they generally find
leisure, and if the time be really fully occupied, a quarter of an hour
almost in converse with some authors would provide the mind with
new and instructive thoughts for the whole livelong day.’
‘Well, we must see how Mr. Neuchamp carries out his ideas when he
has a station of his own,’ said Antonia archly. ‘He must have
everything very nice, very superior to the ordinary ways of colonists,
and must make money also; that is indispensable.’
‘I will answer for his trying to have things pleasantly and perhaps
artistically arranged,’ said Ernest, following out the sketch; ‘but as for
the making money, I have so little interest in it as one of the fine
arts, that I may fail in that.’
‘But that is the foundation of all the good deeds that you may do, so
at least papa says. If a man doesn’t make money, I heard him say
once, he shows all the world that there is some quality lacking in
him, and any little that he can say or do will not have its just weight;
he is regarded only as an unpractical, unsuccessful enthusiast.’
‘I hate the word enthusiast,’ said Mr. Neuchamp, ‘or rather the sense
of disparagement in which it is generally used. It has come to mean,
a man who is obstinately bent on a course of conduct which is
wrong, or who exaggerates the degree or importance of his practice
in what is right.’
‘I cannot say that I am particularly fond of the word or of the idea
myself, woman as I am; and you know that we are supposed to be
full of enthusiasm on every conceivable subject from parasols to
politics.’
‘And why does Miss Frankston add her powerful influence to the
world’s Philistinism, already sufficient for its needs?’ asked Ernest,
with a slight tinge of satire.
‘I don’t say that I deny or distrust enthusiasm in men; and I can
imagine a sincere respect and liking for the individual to go with a
distrust of the quality, and for this reason. We may have the greatest
admiration for this lofty feeling and generous self-denial which go to
compose the character of the enthusiast; but we may smile at the
likelihood of any of his great schemes issuing in glory and success.’
‘But, surely,’ pleaded Ernest, ‘many of the great deeds which
embellish history and which have ennobled our common natures
have been nurtured in the brains, wrought out by the hands of men
whom the world call enthusiasts.’
‘Of that fact I am not so sure,’ answered Antonia. ‘I should rather
say that the successful heroes were men of steadfast nature, not
particularly acted upon by joy or despondency, whom success did
not exhilarate, nor adversity bow down; through good and evil
report, failure, or the harder trial of success, they bore themselves
calmly and strongly.’
‘But how about the sea—and the mysterious intoxication
communicated by its very appearance?’ asked Ernest mischievously.
‘Is there no enthusiasm about such a feeling?’
‘All those sensations,’ laughed the girl, ‘belong to the ideal Antonia
Frankston, of which only a glimpse is permitted to any one from time
to time. The real Miss Frankston——’
‘What does she do?’
‘Makes puddings, keeps the household accounts, orders dinner, and
has distinct ideas on the subject of the main chance; very prosaic
this last. Is not that a lovely nook, and such a pretty house?’
At this turn of the subject, and the turn of the road, they had
unexpectedly come upon a villa embosomed in an almost Alpine fir
grove; the trim lawns and delicately-coloured parterres, amid which
it was placed, giving the whole place the appearance of a Watteau,
framed in sombre green.
‘It is a living picture,’ said Ernest; ‘how that wonderful Bougainvillea
has draped the whole height of the north wing of the house; it is in
full and splendid bloom, and mingled with it are the snowy flowers
of the delicate myosotis. How charmingly secluded it is; they can
look straight from their parlours across those dwarf-walls—across the
Pacific Ocean. But where is the shepherdess?’
‘There she is; do you not see that young girl sitting reading by the
fountain? Calm and untroubled she looks; she reclines upon the low
terrace facing the sea; by her side is a great vase filled with flowers.
A child with a wide sash runs out from the house towards her. Can
anything more closely realise a deep dream of peace?’
‘Nothing, indeed,’ assented Ernest admiringly. ‘I could live all my
days in such a nook, with one fair spirit to be my minister, and
perhaps defer finishing my own and other people’s education
indefinitely.’
‘Look!’ continued Antonia, ignoring the personal element, ‘with what
a bold, sweeping curve the coastline recedes; leaving the loveliest
little landlocked bay, with silver sands and a grand sandstone bluff
guarding and walling-in the farther point like a grim jealous giant.
But now we have such a piece of road, before we reach Bondi—
smooth, soft, and slightly ascending. We must have a gentle
breather.’
She took Waratah by the head, and slightly bending forward on her
saddle, the eager thoroughbred went away at once, causing the
heart of Mr. Neuchamp to palpitate with a nervous dread of accident.
Of course Osmund followed suit, though it gave him quite enough to
do to keep pace with the bounding, elastic stride of the well-bred
flyer. In a three-mile race he could have run Waratah hard. However,
for the half-mile spin it took a little hustling to prevent his being
distanced. At the steep ascent of the hill above the far-famed beach,
Antonia reined in her steed, which possessed the rare compromise,
good temper with high courage.
‘I suppose that our stupid scientific men will never find out any way
for us to fly,’ said she, ‘but a good gallop must be as near the
sensation as we can hope for. What a glorious feeling it is! I envy
men their hunting, perhaps more than any of their exclusive
pastimes.’
‘But ladies hunt, at any rate in England,’ said Ernest, ‘and very
straight they go too.’
‘So they do, I have been told; but in Australia there are hardly
enough of us to keep one another countenance; and besides, papa
does not like it; the fences are so very dangerous.’
‘All things considered, I agree with Mr. Frankston.’
‘But what a view of views!’
They had now reached the crest of the hill, the deep-toned
ceaseless roll of the surf-billows had long been in their ears.
‘That is Bondi,’ said Antonia, pointing southward. ‘I have heard that
sound at intervals all my life. I used to dream of it when I was a
little child.’
Ernest looked southward over a rolling, rugged down, flecked with
patches of low underwood and heath, to where a broad, milk-white
beach received the vast rollers of a boundless ocean. No point or
headland broke the continuous distance of the immense dark blue
plain which stretched to the utmost boundary of vision.
It was no day of gale or tempest, but there had been sufficient wind
on this and the previous day to set in motion the unresting surges
which failed not the year through to moan and thunder upon this
broad clear shining beach. Great crags lay to the westward, shutting
off this bay from the other portions of the coast, while a projection
to the eastward tended to isolate the bay of surges. Far out, from
time to time a shining sail came from the under-world and swept
placidly towards the city, or a stately ocean steamer, with throbbing
screw or mighty paddle, left a long line of smoke trailing behind her
as she drove haughtily against wind or tide on her appointed course.
‘How one drinks in all this grandeur and loveliness of Dame Nature,’
said Ernest. ‘An instinctive constitutional craving seems satiated only
by gazing at a scene like this.’
‘I fully comprehend the condition of mind,’ said Antonia. ‘You have
been shut up at Garrandilla, where in time, except from information,
you would begin to doubt the existence of the sea altogether.’
‘It is an astonishing contrast,’ assented Mr. Neuchamp. ‘How awfully
hot it must be there now. I daresay old Doubletides is just coming
in, half melted after his day’s work, looking for lost sheep—counting
one flock, and ordering another to come in to-morrow.’
‘Surely it must be a terrible life,’ said Antonia apprehensively. ‘Is that
why people in the bush go mad sometimes?’
‘It’s hard to say. I really don’t think he or Jedwood are even dull or
distrait, or unduly impressed with the nothingness of existence. I
think very energetic people have certain advantages. Their tuglike,
unremitting habit of doing something keeps the machine going, until
some fine day a cogwheel catches, or a rivet breaks, and one more
human unit mingles its dust with the forgotten millions.’
‘Contemplation is very nice,’ said Antonia, ‘but I think it tends to
lower the spirits, whereas work of any kind, with or without a
purpose, tends to raise them; and now we must ride for it, or we
shall be late for dinner, which I know from experience does not tend
to raise papa’s spirits.’
The roads were perfect, and the kindly twilight as they swept past
the line plantations of Randwick, and adown the noble avenue which
in the future will be one of the glories of Sydney, through the wide
half-redeemed expanse of Moore Park, and so home by Woollahra,
gave them every opportunity of lengthening their tête-à-tête, and
yet arriving at Morahmee in time for dinner. It necessitated a hasty
toilet on both sides, but at the last notes of the bell Antonia
appeared, looking very fresh and animated after the expedition, and
Ernest, whose appetite had not yet relapsed into metropolitan
apathy, looked forward to dinner with feelings of almost youthful
anticipation.
‘Well, what do you think of Bondi?’ asked the old gentleman. ‘I was
nearly drowned there when I was a youngster swimming in the surf.
In fact I was drowned to all intents and purposes, except that I am
here now. I was sucked back by the undertow time after time, till I
was quite beaten. I had a few minutes’ awful struggle; then collapse
and half a minute’s choke; then lovely music in my ears; and I left
the world—as I thought—for good.’
‘You dear old naughty boy of a father,’ said Antonia, with tears half
gathering to her eye, ‘I am sure you were bathing unlawfully, like the
boys in the story-book. But what restored you to life?’
‘Well, a Maori, who happened to come up at the time in a fishing-
boat. He could swim.’
‘But I thought you said that you were swimming in the surf and did
your best to fight through it?’ inquired Ernest.
‘Maoris and Kanakas can swim’, repeated the old man sarcastically.
’White men like you and me can only paddle. Anyhow, he dived and
brought me up, and ten minutes after I was suffering the frightful
torture, “coming to.” So, as perhaps you may have guessed, I did
not die that time.’
‘Oft in danger, yet alive,
We are come to, fifty-five,’
quoted Ernest. ‘I daresay you have had all sorts of hairbreadth
escapes, if you would only tell them to us.’
‘Escapes! well, I have had a few,’ chuckled the old man. ‘Some day I
must make Antonia write them out, and we’ll publish the Surprising
Adventures of Paul Frankston. I wonder if I could put in some of my
stories? Ha! ha! ha! How they would laugh.’
‘I think your life would make a capital book,’ said Antonia, ‘and you
could afford to leave the stories out.’
‘Ha! well, I don’t know; some people might object; but I have seen
some queer places and people, and had some very narrow squeaks.
I was a ship boy in the Lloyd when the Maoris took her at the Bay of
Islands.’
‘What did they do?’ asked Ernest.
‘Do? Only murdered every living soul except a little girl and myself!
Old Parson Ramsden came down months after and ransomed us. He
could go anywhere. That little girl is a grandmother now. I could
show you such a splendid bit of tattooing just—Antonia, my dear,
you needn’t be afraid.’
‘Don’t be foolish, papa,’ said Antonia, blushing. ‘Mr. Neuchamp, he is
only joking.’
‘Joking,’ said the old man; ‘if you’d only had those patterns printed
out slowly and indelibly, like me and Mrs. Lutton, poor thing, you’d
have known it was no joke.’
‘Well, they didn’t eat you that time, at any rate,’ said Ernest, coming
to the rescue; ‘a hero can’t be killed in the first volume; and what
was the next narrow escape?’
‘Years afterwards I was cast away in the south seas, and came
ashore on a spar at an island where they’d never heard of a white
man. They had sacrifices and prayers and made a kind of lottery
about whether they should eat me; when, as luck would have it, the
chief had lost his eldest son a year before, and the priests said I was
him come back. So I was turned into a Kanaka Prince of Wales.’
‘And was the rank properly kept up?’
‘Jolliest place I ever was in, before or since; I had been starved and
shipwrecked, and I tell you it was a pleasant change; I was the
second man in the island. I had a palace, partly leaves, but cool and
pleasant. I had thirty—well—hum—ha—more attendants than I knew
what to do with. I cried, I know, when a Yankee whaler took me off
six months after. But come, this won’t do, Master Ernest, you
mustn’t keep me spinning sea-yarns all night about myself. You
haven’t half told us about your doings. Was Captain Jinks really a
pleasant sort of fellow? And how about the lock-up?’
‘Come, papa,’ said Antonia, ‘it’s hardly fair to Mr. Neuchamp to laugh
at him about that little mistake—any one might be taken in by a
nice-looking, clever, plausible man.’
‘Well, I confess,’ said Ernest boldly, ‘I was taken in, though I ought
to have known better. If I had seen a seedy aristocrat in my own
country, I should not have made a travelling companion of him. But
he was very clever and good-looking, and I thought there was
nothing wonderful in such a man being out of luck in a colony.’
‘Never mind; fault on the right side,’ said Mr. Frankston—‘anything’s
better than being suspicious; you’ll cut your wisdom teeth before
you’ve done with us.’
END OF VOL. I
Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

Transcriber's Note
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Other variations in
hyphenation, spelling and punctuation remain unchanged.
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A COLONIAL
REFORMER, VOL. 1 (OF 3) ***

Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions

will be renamed.

Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S.

copyright law means that no one owns a United States
copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy
and distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the
General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and
distributing Project Gutenberg™ electronic works to protect the
PROJECT GUTENBERG™ concept and trademark. Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if
you charge for an eBook, except by following the terms of the
trademark license, including paying royalties for use of the
Project Gutenberg trademark. If you do not charge anything for
copies of this eBook, complying with the trademark license is
very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such
as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
research. Project Gutenberg eBooks may be modified and
printed and given away—you may do practically ANYTHING in
the United States with eBooks not protected by U.S. copyright
law. Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, especially
commercial redistribution.

START: FULL LICENSE

THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
 PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK

To protect the Project Gutenberg™ mission of promoting the

free distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this
work (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase
“Project Gutenberg”), you agree to comply with all the terms of
the Full Project Gutenberg™ License available with this file or
online at www.gutenberg.org/license.

Section 1. General Terms of Use and

Redistributing Project Gutenberg™
electronic works
1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg™
electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand,
agree to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual
property (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree
to abide by all the terms of this agreement, you must cease
using and return or destroy all copies of Project Gutenberg™
electronic works in your possession. If you paid a fee for
obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Gutenberg™
electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the terms
of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8.

1.B. “Project Gutenberg” is a registered trademark. It may only

be used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by
people who agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
There are a few things that you can do with most Project
Gutenberg™ electronic works even without complying with the
full terms of this agreement. See paragraph 1.C below. There
are a lot of things you can do with Project Gutenberg™
electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement and
help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg™
electronic works. See paragraph 1.E below.
1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (“the
Foundation” or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection of Project Gutenberg™ electronic works. Nearly all the
individual works in the collection are in the public domain in the
United States. If an individual work is unprotected by copyright
law in the United States and you are located in the United
States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from copying,
distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative works
based on the work as long as all references to Project
Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will
support the Project Gutenberg™ mission of promoting free
access to electronic works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg™
works in compliance with the terms of this agreement for
keeping the Project Gutenberg™ name associated with the
work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement
by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full
Project Gutenberg™ License when you share it without charge
with others.

1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also
govern what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most
countries are in a constant state of change. If you are outside
the United States, check the laws of your country in addition to
the terms of this agreement before downloading, copying,
displaying, performing, distributing or creating derivative works
based on this work or any other Project Gutenberg™ work. The
Foundation makes no representations concerning the copyright
status of any work in any country other than the United States.

1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project

Gutenberg:

1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other

immediate access to, the full Project Gutenberg™ License must
appear prominently whenever any copy of a Project
Gutenberg™ work (any work on which the phrase “Project
Gutenberg” appears, or with which the phrase “Project
Gutenberg” is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed,
viewed, copied or distributed:

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United

States and most other parts of the world at no cost and
with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,
give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at
www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United
States, you will have to check the laws of the country
where you are located before using this eBook.

1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg™ electronic work is

derived from texts not protected by U.S. copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of
the copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to
anyone in the United States without paying any fees or charges.
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work with the
phrase “Project Gutenberg” associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of
paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use
of the work and the Project Gutenberg™ trademark as set forth
in paragraphs 1.E.8 or 1.E.9.

1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg™ electronic work is

posted with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and
distribution must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through
1.E.7 and any additional terms imposed by the copyright holder.
Additional terms will be linked to the Project Gutenberg™
License for all works posted with the permission of the copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.

1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project

Gutenberg™ License terms from this work, or any files
 containing a part of this work or any other work associated with
Project Gutenberg™.

1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute

this electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1
with active links or immediate access to the full terms of the
Project Gutenberg™ License.

1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including any word processing or hypertext form. However, if
you provide access to or distribute copies of a Project
Gutenberg™ work in a format other than “Plain Vanilla ASCII” or
other format used in the official version posted on the official
Project Gutenberg™ website (www.gutenberg.org), you must,
at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a copy,
a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy
upon request, of the work in its original “Plain Vanilla ASCII” or
other form. Any alternate format must include the full Project
Gutenberg™ License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1.

1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,

performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg™
works unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9.

1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or

providing access to or distributing Project Gutenberg™
electronic works provided that:

• You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive
from the use of Project Gutenberg™ works calculated using the
method you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The
fee is owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg™ trademark,
but he has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty
 payments must be paid within 60 days following each date on
which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked
as such and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation at the address specified in Section 4, “Information
about donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation.”

• You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who

notifies you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt
that s/he does not agree to the terms of the full Project
Gutenberg™ License. You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg™ works.

• You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of

any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in
the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90
days of receipt of the work.

• You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg™ works.

1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project

Gutenberg™ electronic work or group of works on different
terms than are set forth in this agreement, you must obtain
permission in writing from the Project Gutenberg Literary
Archive Foundation, the manager of the Project Gutenberg™
trademark. Contact the Foundation as set forth in Section 3
below.

1.F.

1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend

considerable effort to identify, do copyright research on,
transcribe and proofread works not protected by U.S. copyright
law in creating the Project Gutenberg™ collection. Despite these
efforts, Project Gutenberg™ electronic works, and the medium
on which they may be stored, may contain “Defects,” such as,
but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data,
transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual property
infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be
read by your equipment.

1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except

for the “Right of Replacement or Refund” described in
paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation, the owner of the Project Gutenberg™ trademark,
and any other party distributing a Project Gutenberg™ electronic
work under this agreement, disclaim all liability to you for
damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. YOU AGREE
THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE
THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY
DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE
TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE
NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you

discover a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any) you
paid for it by sending a written explanation to the person you
received the work from. If you received the work on a physical
medium, you must return the medium with your written
explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the
defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu
of a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person
or entity providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
Welcome to our website – the ideal destination for book lovers and
knowledge seekers. With a mission to inspire endlessly, we offer a
vast collection of books, ranging from classic literary works to
specialized publications, self-development books, and children's
literature. Each book is a new journey of discovery, expanding
knowledge and enriching the soul of the reade

Our website is not just a platform for buying books, but a bridge
connecting readers to the timeless values of culture and wisdom. With
an elegant, user-friendly interface and an intelligent search system,
we are committed to providing a quick and convenient shopping
experience. Additionally, our special promotions and home delivery
services ensure that you save time and fully enjoy the joy of reading.

Let us accompany you on the journey of exploring knowledge and

personal growth!

ebookultra.com