"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
The ability to model the temporal dimension is essential to many applications. Furthermore, the rate of increase in database size and response time requirements has outpaced advan...
Jose Alvin G. Gendrano, Bruce C. Huang, Jim M. Rod...
Understanding the differences between contrasting groups is a fundamental task in data analysis. This realization has led to the development of a new special purpose data mining t...
Geoffrey I. Webb, Shane M. Butler, Douglas A. Newl...
Outlier detection has many important applications in sensor networks, e.g., abnormal event detection, animal behavior change, etc. It is a difficult problem since global informati...
Replication combined with explicit management of data integrity constraints can be used to enhance availability of object-oriented, data-centric distributed systems when node and ...