Patterns and models are artifacts that are assets to their owners. Storing them in a repository and using common interfaces for their management simplifies their usage. This articl...
Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, an...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously synthesize knowledge of interest to a given user (target knowledge) by applying inductive database operators to a local or di...
In this paper, a new pattern-growth algorithm is presented to mine frequent sequential patterns using First-Occurrence Forests (FOF). This algorithm uses a simple list of pointers...
Many applications refer to moving objects or phenomena and require spatio-temporal modelling and specific analysis. Unlike conventional data where attributes are simple values (nu...