Though designing a data warehouse requires techniques completely different from those adopted for operational systems, no significant effort has been made so far to develop a comp...
Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...
Data warehouses are complex systems that have to deliver highly-aggregated, high quality data from heterogeneous sources to decision makers. Due to the dynamic change in the requir...
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Christoph Quix, Matthias Jark...
Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
Terrain-aided navigation is a database application in which an aeroplane locates itself by matching the height trajectory with a terrain-elevation map on board the aircraft. Witho...