Data mining is the process of deriving knowledge from data. The architecture of a data mining system plays a significant role in the efficiency with which data is mined. It is pro...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) workflows are data centric workflows responsible for transferring, cleaning, and loading data from their respective sources to the warehouse. Previous ...
The paper studies the problem of maintaining external dynamic dictionaries with variable length keys. We introduce a new type of balanced trees, called S(b)-trees, which generaliz...
The problem of integrating autonomous data marts arises when, e.g., a large organization (or a federation thereof) needs to combine independently developed data warehouses. It turn...