In many hierarchical companies, reports from several independent groups must be merged to form a single, companywide report. This paper describes a process and system for creating...
Large scale bioinformatics experiments are usually composed by a set of data flows generated by a chain of activities (programs or services) that may be modeled as scientific work...
Assessment on collaborative student behavior is a longstanding issue in user modeling. Nowadays thanks to the proliferation of online learning and the vast amount of data on studen...
Rapidly changing environments such as robots, sensor networks, or medical services are emerging. To deal with them, DBMS should persist sensor data streams instantaneously. To achi...
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...