A prominent trend in the software industry in the late 1990s was the development of the application service providing business model. Application service providers (ASP)1 offer th...
Long running decision support queries can be resource intensive and often lead to resource contention in data warehousing systems. Today, the only real option available to the DBA...
A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
In both the commercial and defense sectors a compelling need is emerging for highly dynamic, yet risk optimized, sharing of information across traditional organizational boundarie...
— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...