We consider a distributed information system that allows autonomous consumers to query autonomous providers. We focus on the problem of query allocation from a new point of view, ...
Data warehouses store large volumes of data according to a multidimensional model with dimensions representing different axes of analysis. OLAP systems (OnLine Analytical Processi...
We have architected and evaluated a new kind of data resource, one that is composed of a logical collection of ephemeral data streams that could be viewed as a collection of publi...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
W e discuss the modification of queries against an integrated view in a federation of object-oriented databases. W epresent a generalisation of existing algorithms for simple glob...