Data warehouses have captured the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But the design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and best current practice of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional ...
The fourth international conference on Extending Data BaseTechnology was held in Cambridge, UK, in March 1994. Thebiannual EDBT has established itself as the premier Europeandatabase conference. It provides an international forum forthe presentation of new extensions to database technologythrough research, development, and application. This ...
The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network technologies has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area which embraces both the ...
Information is unquestionably a critical resource in the operation of all organizations, but the wealth of information now available through dramatic new developments in microcomputer and communications technology can create new problems of quality, consistency and security. Managers, Micros and Mainframes sets out to show how, in order to exploit ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE'99 held in Heidelberg, Germany in June 1999.The 27 revised full papers presented together with 12 short research papers and two invited contributions were carefully selected from a total of 168 submissions. The ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Annual German conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2002, held in Aachen, Germany in September 2002. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The book offers topical sections on natural language processing; machine learning; ...
The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network technologies has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area which embraces both the ...
This text is a guide to the foundations of method engineering, a developing field concerned with the definition of techniques for designing software systems. The approach is based on metamodeling, the construction of a model about a collection of other models. The book applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies, each describing a ...
The development of integrated environments for computer-assisted software engineering (CASE) has proven more difficult than expected. The ESPRIT project DAIDA (Advanced Interactive Development of Data-Intensive Applications) has produced the first prototype of a comprehensive systems environment which manages the whole process of information ...
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