OBJECTIVE:: Handling time-related concepts is essential in medicine. During diagnosis it
can make a substantial difference to know the temporal order in which some symptoms …

Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business,
science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented …

Despite the ubiquity of temporal data and considerable research on the effective and
efficient processing of such data, database systems largely remain designed for processing …

From basic data mining concepts to state-of-the-art advances, this book covers the theory of
the subject as well as its application in a variety of fields. It discusses the incorporation of …

With the increase in the size of data sets, data mining has recently become an important
research topic and is receiving substantial interest from both academia and industry. At the …

On-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems considerably improve data analysis and are
finding wide-spread use. OLAP systems typically employ multidimensional data models to …

Calendar units, such as months and days, clock units, such as hours and seconds, and
specialized units, such as business days and academic years, play a major role in a wide …

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems considerably ease the process of analyzing
business data and have become widely used in industry. Such systems primarily employ …

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies
for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data …

Audit logs are considered good practice for business systems, and are required by federal
regulations for secure systems, drug approval data, medical information disclosure, financial …