The "Babel tower effect", induced by the heterogeneity of applications available in the operation of enterprises brings to a consistent lack of "exchangeability"...
Extraction-Transformation-Loading (ETL) tools are pieces of software responsible for the extraction of data from several sources, their cleansing, customization and insertion into...
Abstract--Sequential pattern mining is a crucial but challenging task in many applications, e.g., analyzing the behaviors of data in transactions and discovering frequent patterns ...
Abstract—Two major forms of information integration, federation and materialization, continue to dominate the market, embedded in separate products, each with their strengths and...
We describe a framework called the Uni-Level Description (ULD) for accurately representing information from a broad range of data models. The ULD extends previous metadata-model a...