Materialized view selection is a critical problem in many applications such as query
processing, data warehousing, distributed and semantic web databases, etc. We refer to the …

In the past 35 years, parallel computing has drawn increasing interest from the academic
community, especially in solving complex optimization problems that require large amounts …

Strategic business decision making has become far more complex, challenging and
consequential in today's modern and highly competitive economy. So, managers have been …

Data warehouses are subject oriented, consolidated, integrated, and time variant repository
of possibly heterogeneous data. A data warehouse is used to response to on-line analytical …

Since a data warehouse deals with huge amounts of data and complex analytical queries,
online processing and answering to users' queries in data warehouses can be a serious …

Using materialized views can highly speed up the query processing time. This paper deals
with the view selection issue, which consists in finding a set of views to materialize that …

Storage of pre-computed views in data warehouse can essentially reduce query processing
cost for decision support queries. The problem is to choose an optimal set of materialized …

Data warehouse is an essential component of almost every modern enterprise information
system. It stores huge amount of subject-oriented, time-stamped, non-volatile and integrated …

Decision support systems (DSS) constitute one of the most crucial components of almost
every corporation's information system. Data warehouse provides the DSS with massive …

In the present information age, data and information are vital not just for the survival of any
corporate entity, but also to provide it with an edge over its competitors. Data warehouses …