A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
OLAP queries are typically heavy-weight and ad-hoc thus requiring high storage capacity and processing power. In this paper, we address this problem using a database cluster which...
Alexandre A. B. Lima, Marta Mattoso, Patrick Valdu...
Abstract. A Data Warehouse (DW) is a data repository that organizes and physically integrates data from multiple sources under special kinds of schemas. A DW is composed by a set o...
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...
We describe the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that computes consistent answers to Datalog queries with negation posed to relational databases that may be inconsistent with...