A tool for data cube construction from structurally heterogeneous XML documents

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 435-449

  Näppilä, Turkka ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a   Niemi, Timo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

DATA CUBE CONSTRUCTION; HETEROGENEITY; QUERY EVALUATION; SMALLEST POSSIBLE CONTEXT (SPC);

XML;

EID: 39749140972     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20756     Document Type: Article

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