A Data Warehouse (DW) can be used to integrate data from multiple distributed data sources. A DW can be seen as a set of materialized views that determine its schema and its conten...
The need for information integration is paramount in many biological disciplines, because of the large heterogeneity in both the types of data involved and in the diversity of app...
Star schema has been a typical model for both online transaction processing in traditional databases and online analytical processing in large data warehouses. In the star schema,...
Many collections of scienti c data in particular disciplines are available today around the world. Much of this data conforms to some agreed upon standard for data exchange, i.e., ...
George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Anthony Tomasic
We propose a multi-dimensional language called nD-SQL with the following features: (i) nD-SQL supports queries that interoperate amongst multiple relational sources with heterogen...