The rapid progress of biotechnology provides an increasing number of life science databases. These databases have been operated and managed individually on the Internet. Under such...
Given a set of multi-dimensional points, the skyline contains the best points according to any preference function that is monotone on all axes. In practice, applications that req...
Abstract. This text motivates and de nes a generic model for interactive online or o ine product catalogs. Based on a detailed requirements analysis, the data model is de ned usi...
Searching and extracting meaningful information out of highly heterogeneous datasets is a hot topic that received a lot of attention. However, the existing solutions are based on e...
Discovery of association rules from large databases of item sets is an important data mining problem. Association rules are usually stored in relational databases for future use i...