Decision support systems are important in leveraging information present in data warehouses in businesses like banking, insurance, retail and health-care among many others. The mu...
Comprehensive data analysis has become indispensable in a variety of environments. Standard OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems, designed for satisfying the reporting need...
Approximate query answering systems provide very fast alternatives to OLAP systems when applications are tolerant to small errors in query answers. Current sampling-based approach...
Market baskets arise from consumers' shopping trips and include items from multiple categories that are frequently chosen interdependently from each other. Explanatory models...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...