Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
End-users increasingly find the need to perform light-weight, customized schema mapping. State-of-the-art tools provide powerful functions to generate schema mappings, but they u...
Most knowledge discovery processes are biased since some part of the knowledge structure must be given before extraction. We propose a framework that avoids this bias by supporting...
: Structural queries constitute a special form of content-basedretrieval where the user specifiesa set of spatial constraints among query variables and asks for all configurations ...
Data Warehouse logical design involves the definition of structures that enable an efficient access to information. The designer builds relational or multidimensional structures ta...