The emerging area of business process intelligence attempts to enhance the analytical capabilities of business process management systems by employing data warehousing and mining t...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
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,...
Abstract The top-k dominating query returns k data objects which dominate the highest number of objects in a dataset. This query is an important tool for decision support since it ...
We introduce a persistentfunctional languagecalled PFL which adapts functional programming to the area of deductive databases,much as logic-based deductive databaselanguagesadapt ...