There is a growing need to associate a variety of metadata with the underlying data, but a simple, elegant approach to uniformly model and query both the data and the metadata has...
Hospitals increasingly use process models for structuring their care processes. Activities performed to patients are logged to a database but these data are rarely used for managin...
Jonas Poelmans, Guido Dedene, Gerda Verheyden, Her...
Since Jim Gray introduced the concept of ”data cube” in 1997, data cube, associated with online analytical processing (OLAP), has become a driving engine in data warehouse ind...
We present SecureBlox, a declarative system that unifies a distributed query processor with a security policy framework. SecureBlox decouples security concerns from system speci...
William R. Marczak, Shan Shan Huang, Martin Braven...
This paper describes the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a platform for programming against data that raises the level of ion from the logical (relational) level to the conceptual (enti...