The advent and popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has enabled access to a variety of semi-structured data and, when available, this data follows some common XML schema. On the...
On-line analytical processing (OLAP) provides tools to explore and navigate into data cubes in order to extract interesting information. Nevertheless, OLAP is not capable of expla...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is gaining more and more significance due to its widespread use currently and potential deployments in future applications. In this paper, we propose ...
Abstract. Database systems have been vital for all forms of data processing for a long time. In recent years, the amount of processed data has been growing dramatically, even in sm...
Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...