Nowadays, due to the lack of face-to-face contact, distance course instructors have real difficulties knowing who their students are, how their students behave in the virtual cour...
Spatial data warehouses (SDW) rely on extended multidimensional (MD) models in order to provide decision makers with appropriate structures to intuitively analyse spatial data. Se...
Due to the growing importance of the World Wide Web, archiving it has become crucial for preserving useful source of information. To maintain a web archive up-to-date, crawlers ha...
The capability of correlating streaming web data with internal data in near real time gives enterprises a tremendous competitive advantage by enabling them to be aware of external...
The vision of dataspaces has been articulated as providing various of the benefits of classical data integration but with reduced up-front costs, which, combined with opportunitie...
Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Lu Mao, Norma...
Business Intelligence (BI) applications allow their users to query, understand, and analyze existing data within their organizations in order to acquire useful knowledge, thus mak...
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...
The success of organizations or business networks depends on fast and well-founded decisions taken by the relevant people in their specific area of responsibility. To enable time...