TY - BOOK ID - 8211406 TI - A Real-Time In-Memory Discovery Service : Leveraging Hierarchical Packaging Information in a Unique Identifier Network to Retrieve Track and Trace Information PY - 2013 SN - 3642371272 3642437672 3642371280 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Data mining. KW - Identification. KW - Inventory control -- Data processing. KW - Commerce KW - Business & Economics KW - Commerce - General KW - Database management. KW - Data base management KW - Data services (Database management) KW - Database management services KW - DBMS (Computer science) KW - Generalized data management systems KW - Services, Database management KW - Systems, Database management KW - Systems, Generalized database management KW - Algorithmic knowledge discovery KW - Factual data analysis KW - KDD (Information retrieval) KW - Knowledge discovery in data KW - Knowledge discovery in databases KW - Mining, Data KW - Business. KW - Production management. KW - Information technology. KW - Business KW - Computer organization. KW - Data structures (Computer science). KW - Computers. KW - Business and Management. KW - IT in Business. KW - Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks. KW - Data Structures. KW - Information Systems and Communication Service. KW - Operations Management. KW - Data processing. KW - Electronic data processing KW - Database searching KW - Computer network architectures. KW - Data structures (Computer scienc. KW - Information systems. KW - Manufacturing management KW - Industrial management KW - Architectures, Computer network KW - Network architectures, Computer KW - Computer architecture KW - IT (Information technology) KW - Technology KW - Telematics KW - Information superhighway KW - Knowledge management KW - Business—Data processing. KW - Automatic computers KW - Automatic data processors KW - Computer hardware KW - Computing machines (Computers) KW - Electronic brains KW - Electronic calculating-machines KW - Electronic computers KW - Hardware, Computer KW - Computer systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Machine theory KW - Calculators KW - Cyberspace KW - Information structures (Computer science) KW - Structures, Data (Computer science) KW - Structures, Information (Computer science) KW - File organization (Computer science) KW - Abstract data types (Computer science) KW - Organization, Computer KW - Electronic digital computers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8211406 AB - The research presented in this book discusses how to efficiently retrieve track and trace information for an item of interest that took a certain path through a complex network of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. To this end, a super-ordinate system called "Discovery Service" is designed that has to handle large amounts of data, high insert-rates, and a high number of queries that are submitted to the discovery service. An example that is used throughout this book is the European pharmaceutical supply chain, which faces the challenge that more and more counterfeit medicinal products are being introduced. Between October and December 2008, more than 34 million fake drug pills were detected at customs control at the borders of the European Union. These fake drugs can put lives in danger as they were supposed to fight cancer, take effect as painkiller or antibiotics, among others. The concepts described in this book can be adopted for supply chain management use cases other than track and trace, such as recall, supply chain optimization, or supply chain analytics. ER -