Although traditional databases and data warehouses have been exploited widely to manage persistent data, a large number of applications from sensor network need functional support...
Semistructured data, in particular XML, has emerged as one of the primary means for information exchange and content management. The power of XML allows authors to structure a doc...
: Data warehouses typically store a multidimensional fact representation of the data that can be used in any type of analysis. Many applications materialize data cubes as multidime...
New emerging scientific applications in geosciences, sensor and spatio-temporal domains require adaptive analysis frameworks that can handle large datasets with multiple dimension...
Nowadays, data mining is based on low-level speci cations of the employed techniques typically bounded to a speci c analysis platform. Therefore, data mining lacks a modelling arc...