— How similar are two data-cubes? In other words, the question under consideration is: given two sets of points in a multidimensional hierarchical space, what is the distance val...
Profiling customers’ behavior has become increasingly important for many applications such as fraud detection, targeted marketing and promotion. Customer behavior profiles are cr...
Aggregating spatial objects is a necessary step in generating spatial data cubes to support roll-up/drill-down operations. Current approaches face performance bottleneck issues wh...
With increasing amount of data being stored in XML format, OLAP queries over these data become important. OLAP queries have been well studied in the relational database systems. H...
Being able to efficiently answer arbitrary OLAP queries that aggregate along any combination of dimensions over numerical and categorical attributes has been a continued, major co...