Business Intelligence (BI) applications allow their users to query, understand, and analyze existing data within their organizations in order to acquire useful knowledge, thus mak...
Data management is growing in complexity as largescale applications take advantage of the loosely coupled resources brought together by grid middleware and by abundant storage cap...
Bitmap indexes are widely used in Decision Support Systems (DSSs) to improve query performance. In this paper, we evaluate the use of compressed inverted indexes with adapted quer...
A distributed multimedia information system allows users to access data of different modalities, from different data sources, ranked by various combinationsof criteria. In [6], Fa...
Edward L. Wimmers, Laura M. Haas, Mary Tork Roth, ...
Semantic models have shown the utility of arbitrary user-de ned relationships for de ning the semantics of database information, while objectoriented models have developed a stron...