Data Warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing systems rely on a multidimensional model that includes dimensions, hierarchies, and measures. Such model allows to express users&...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
In the last years, lots of work have been devoted to multidimensional modeling, star shape schemas and OLAP operations. However, “drill-across” has not captured as much attent...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
— In many applications involving the multiple criteria optimal decision making, users may often want to make a personal trade-off among all optimal solutions. As a key feature, t...
Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Muhammad Aam...