Massive amounts of raw data are currently being generated by biologists while sequencing organisms. Outside of the largest, high-pro le projects such as the Human Genome Project, ...
Most of the existing image retrieval systems take the textual query from the user and utilize the metadata associated with the database images to retrieve the result. However, the...
Accurate and efficient integration of geospatial data is an important problem with applications in areas such as emergency response and urban planning. Some of the key challenges ...
With more and more natural language text stored in databases, handling respective query predicates becomes very important. Optimizing queries with predicates includes (sub)string ...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...