For some problems, human assistance is needed in addition to automated (algorithmic) computation. In sharp contrast to existing data management approaches, where human input is ei...
Conceptual complexity is emerging as a new bottleneck as data-base developers, application developers, and database administrators struggle to design and comprehend large, complex...
Modeling is used to build structures that serve as surrogates for other objects. As children, we learn to model at a very young age. An object such as a small toy train teaches us...
Though it is commonly agreed that the design of large database schemata requires group effort, database design from component subschemata has not been investigated thoroughly. In ...
Commercial OLAP systems usually treat OLAP dimensions as static entities. In practice, dimension updates are often necessary in order to adapt the multidimensional database to chan...