Optimal and efficient integration of heterogeneous summary tables in a distributed database

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-350

  Scotney, Bryan ^a   McClean, Sally ^a   Rodgers, Máire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA INTEGRATION; HETEROGENEOUS SUMMARY TABLES; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033099513     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(98)00039-1     Document Type: Article

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