This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
OLAP is an important tool in decision support. With the help of domain knowledge, such as hierarchies of attribute values, OLAP helps the user observe the effects of various decis...
Abstract. The process industries (chemicals, food, oil, ...) are characterized by - continuous or batch -- processes of material transformation. The design of such processes, and t...
Abstract. Caching can highly improve performance of query processing in distributed databases. In this paper we show how this technique can be used in grid architecture where data ...
Piotr Cybula, Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stence...
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...