On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies are being used widely, but the lack of effective means of handling data imprecision, which occurs when exact values are not known...
Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis ...
Data visualization is one of the big issues of database research. OLAP as a decision support technology is highly related to the developments of data visualization area. In this p...
Andreas S. Maniatis, Panos Vassiliadis, Spiros Ski...
The European MIAMM-project (Multidimensional Information Access using Multiple Modalities) develops new concepts and techniques for multimodal dialogs that allow for fast and natu...
Myra P. van Esch-Bussemakers, Anita H. M. Cremers,...
Keyword search over entity databases (e.g., product, movie databases) is an important problem. Current techniques for keyword search on databases may often return incomplete and i...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...