Abstract. The traditional unification is strict in the sense that it requires a perfect agreement between the terms being unified. In practice, data is seldom error-free and can co...
With the multiplication of XML data sources, many XML data warehouse models have been proposed to handle data heterogeneity and complexity in a way relational data warehouses fail...
It is now common to encounter communities engaged in the collaborative analysis and transformation of large quantities of data over extended time periods. We argue that these comm...
Knowledge about customers is vital for supply chains in order to ensure customer satisfaction. In an ideal supply chain environment, supply chain partners are able to perform plan...
In group communication, users often have different access rights to multiple data streams. Based on the access relation of users and data streams, users can form partially ordered...