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Several commercial applications, such as online comparison shopping and process automation, require integrating information that is scattered across multiple websites or XML docum...
The ability to manage metadata is a critical requirement of the grid, but scientists have not been given the tools needed to catalog experimental data based complex metadata attri...
Scott Jensen, Beth Plale, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Y...
The Relational On-Line Analytical Processing (ROLAP) is emerging as thedominant approach in data warehousing with decision support applications. In order to enhance query performa...
The trend towards outsourcing increases the number of documents stored at external service providers. This storage model, however, raises privacy and security concerns because the...