In a data warehousing process, the data preparation phase is crucial. Mastering this phase allows substantial gains in terms of time and performance when performing a multidimensio...
There is much current interest in publishing and viewing databases as XML documents. The general benefits of this approach follow from the popularity of XML and the tool set avai...
Several biological databases exist which use different formats for storing data. Further, each database has its own schema and a query interface. There exist no standard conversio...
Today's enterprises face critical needs in integrating disparate information spread over several data sources inside and even outside the organization. Most organizations alre...
In this paper, we propose a preference framework for information retrieval in which the user and the system administrator are enabled to express preference annotations on search ke...