The development of data warehouses is based on a threestage process that starts specifying both the static and dynamic properties of on-line analytical processing (OLAP) applicati...
Data integration is a significant challenge: relevant data objects are split across multiple information sources, and often owned by different organizations. The sources represent...
Multimedia Database Management Systems (MMDBMS) have to efficiently provide the specific functionalities required by time-dependent multimedia data types. During presentation play...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Databases and Grid computing are a good match. With the service orientation of Grid computing, the complexity of maintaining and integrating databases can be kept away from the act...