In the context of multidimensional databases implemented on relational DBMSs through star schemes, the most effective technique to enhance performances consists of materializing re...
The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables are distribute...
Raquel Almeida, Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Henriq...
Twarql is an infrastructure translating microblog posts from Twitter as Linked Open Data in real-time. The approach employed in Twarql can be summarized as follows: (1) extract co...
Pablo N. Mendes, Alexandre Passant, Pavan Kapanipa...
Abstract With the proliferation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial resources over the Internet, there is an increasing demand for robust geospatial information ser...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...