Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Visualization plays an important role in social networks analysis to explore and investigate individual and groups behaviours. Therefore, different approaches have been proposed f...
Maria Chiara Caschera, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Gr...
Traditional approaches for efficiently processing historical queries, where a history is a multidimensional timeseries, employ a two step filter-and-refine scheme. In the filter s...
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...