A Data Warehouse (DW) can be used to integrate data from multiple distributed data sources. A DW can be seen as a set of materialized views that determine its schema and its conten...
Abstract. The today's applications usually form a system of sub-applications, each being responsible for a particular functionality. Hence, the design and maintenance of such ...
We present a method to evaluate path queries based on the novel concept of partial path instances. Our method (1) maximizes performance by means of sequential scans or asynchronou...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Significant efforts are currently invested in application integration to enable the interaction and composition of business processes of different companies, yielding complex, mul...
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, R...