The XML language have been becoming de-facto a standard for representation of heterogeneous data in the Internet. From database point of view, XML is a new approach to data modelli...
In recent years, there has been a large increase in the amount of spatial data obtained from remote sensing, GPS receivers, communication terminals and other domains. Data warehous...
Nowadays, ontologies are used in a lot of diverse research fields. They provide with the capability to describe a huge set of information contents. Therefore, several approaches f...
Most knowledge discovery processes are biased since some part of the knowledge structure must be given before extraction. We propose a framework that avoids this bias by supporting...
Multidimensional discrete data (MDD), i.e., arrays of arbitrary size, dimension, and base type, are receiving growing attention among the database community. MDD occur in a variet...
Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbe...