With the widespread and increasing use of data warehousing in industry, the design of effective data warehouses and their maintenance has become a focus of attention. Independently of this, the area of temporal databases has been an active area of research for well beyond a decade. This article identifies shortcomings of so-called star schemas, which are widely used in industrial warehousing, i...

There is a growing number of different research fields that are concerned with bibliographic data analysis. In many cases, data of interest can be described as heterogeneous information networks. To explore knowledge from that networks in a multidimensinal way, OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) analysis helps users to access data from different points of views. The ability of OLAP for analyzi...

translating and translation are transformed with information and communication technology (ict). within three decades, a new work environment is shaking up the translator’s world. new types of translators are emerging. the balance between supply and demand is changing. however, we need adequate tools and methods to investigate the new hierarchy which has become established between translators, ...