1. Data warehouse architectures : practices and trends / Xuegang Huang -- 2. Improving expressive power in modeling data warehouse and OLAP applications / Elzbieta Malinowski -- 3. From conventional to multiversion data warehouse : practical issues / Khurram Shahzad -- 4. Compression schemes of...

Data warehouses have been developed to answer the increasing demands of quality information required by the top managers and economic analysts of organizations. Their importance in now a day business area is unanimous recognized, being the foundation for developing business intelligence systems....

Knowledge, as intellectual capital, has become the main resource of an organization, and the process of knowledge discovery, acquisition and storage is a very important one. Knowledge discovery can be easily realized through Data Mining, a Machine Learning technique, which allows the discovery...