The first few words of the title of this symposium are "Anchoring Biodiversity Information". In order to properly anchor anything for a long-lasting future, a solid foundation needs to have been laid. For the zoological portion of biodiversity information, that firm foundation is best exemplified in the works of Charles Davies Sherborn. This man, like others of his ilk, was intimately focused o...

The concept of Genealogical Sorting Indexes (GSIs) was first introduced by Cummings et al. [1]. Given a set of observations belonging to different groups (represented in the form of a hierarchial tree), the Genealogical Sorting Index (GSI) value obtained for a particular group provides a quantitative measure of how closely the observations belonging to this group have clustered in the given tre...

Data warehouses are used to store large amounts of data. This data is often used for On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP). Short response times are essential for on-line decision support. Common approaches to reach this goal in read-mostly environments are the precomputation of materialized views and the use of index structures. In this paper, a framework is presented to evaluate different inde...