Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
A Data Warehouse DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materialized views de ned over relations that are stored in distributed heterogeneous databases. The selection of views for...
Spyros Ligoudistianos, Timos K. Sellis, Dimitri Th...
We present a deductive data model for concept-based query expansion. It is based abstraction levels: the conceptual, the expression and the occurrence level. Concepts and their re...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Data Warehouse (DWH) systems represent a single source of information for analyzing the status, the development and the results of an organization. Today's DWH systems provide...