Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

Database researchers have striven to improve the capability of a database in terms of both
performance and functionality. We assert that the usability of a database is as important as …

A fundamental problem in information integration is to precisely specify the relationships,
called mappings, between schemas. Designing mappings is a time-consuming process. To …

We present in this paper BP-QL, a novel query language for querying business processes.
The BP-QL language is based on an intuitive model of business processes, an abstraction of …

Forms-based query interfaces are widely used to access databases today. The design of a
forms-based interface is often a key step in the deployment of a database. Each form in such …

Different clinics and hospitals have their own information systems to maintain patient data.
This hinders the exchange of data among systems (and organizations). Hence there is a …

We present in this paper BP-QL, a novel query language for querying business processes.
The BP-QL language is based on an intuitive model of business processes, an abstraction of …

Value creation in an organisation is a time-sensitive and data-intensive process, yet it is
often delayed and bounded by the reliance on IT experts extracting data for domain experts …

Since the emergence of web 2.0, data started floating all over the web, through online and
offline applications, and across all application domains. Web data (semi-structured data …

Many enterprises nowadays use business processes, based on the BPEL standard, to
achieve their goals. These are complex, often distributed, processes. Monitoring the …