"Business Process Engines manage the most important business state both in a fast in-memory environment and in close coordination with back-end databases. Business Process Engines process many user requests without help from a database." [1] In addition, they specialize in complex business rule processing, because their ability to maintain state is a special advantage in performing such process...

A huge amount of data is everyday managed in large organizations in many critical business sectors with the support of spreadsheet applications. The process of elaborating spreadsheet data is often performed in a distributed, collaborative way, where many actors enter data belonging to their local business domain to contribute to a global business view. The manual fusion of such data may lead t...

Analyzing big data sets as they occur in modern business and science applications requires query languages that allow for the specification of complex data processing tasks. Moreover, these ideally declarative query specifications have to be optimized, parallelized and scheduled for processing on massively parallel data processing platforms. This paper demonstrates the application of Stratosphe...

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an analytical technology used to analyse multidimensional data and evaluate complex queries. OLAP is part of a broader technology suite, known as Business Intelligence (BI), which identifies trends in data sets and facilitates better informed choices. The size of data sets requiring processing is growing very fast; this is due to the nature of the data (h...

ground penetrating radar (gpr) is one of high resolution geophysical methods for locating missed objects, buried equipments. gpr is a nondestructive testing method that is useful in various kinds of explorations such as mapping the archaeological sites. the safety of the archaeological sites is one of the most concerns of the archaeologists. one of the best gpr applications is in archaeology as...

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in the current seismic data acquisition techniques, sources are fired with large time intervals in order to avoid interferences between the responses of successively firing sources, measured by the receivers. this leads to a time-consuming and expensive survey. theoretically the waiting time between two successively firing sources has to be infinite, since the wavefield never vanishes completel...

Given the importance of information processing capabilities in improving business performance, organisations are seeking solutions for leveraging the use of big data and analytics. An emerging application is to inform organisations of potential fraudulent behaviour, which results in reducing online fraud and its associated costs. This paper introduces a case study in which social fingerprinting...

One of the areas with greatest needs having available information at the right moment and with high accuracy is healthcare. Right information at right time saves lives. Healthcare is a vital domain which needs high processing power for high amounts of data. Due to the critical and the special characteristics of these systems, formal methods are used for specification, description and verificati...