As views in a data warehouse become more complex, the view maintenance process can become very complicated and potentially very inefficient. Storing auxiliary views in the warehou...
Ontologies are specifications of the concepts in a given field, and of the relationships among those concepts. The development of ontologies for molecular-biology information and ...
Robin McEntire, Peter D. Karp, Neil F. Abernethy, ...
Abstract. This document1 contains de nitions of a wide range of concepts speci c to and widely used within temporal databases. In addition to providing de nitions, the document als...
Christian S. Jensen, Curtis E. Dyreson, Michael H....
This paper describes and demonstrates the e ectiveness of several metrics for data level comparison of direct volume rendering (DVR) algorithms. The focus is not on speed ups from...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...