In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
Many kinds of real-life data exhibit logical ordering among their data items and are thus sequential in nature. However, traditional online analytical processing (OLAP) systems an...
Eric Lo, Ben Kao, Wai-Shing Ho, Sau Dan Lee, Chun ...
Phylogenetic tree searching algorithms often produce thousands of trees which biologists save in Newick format in order to perform further analysis. Unfortunately, Newick is neithe...
Robert S. Boyer, Warren A. Hunt Jr., Serita M. Nel...
In many modern application ranges high-dimensional feature vectors are used to model complex real-world objects. Often these objects reside on different local sites. In this paper,...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Textual patterns have been used effectively to extract information from large text collections. However they rely heavily on textual redundancy in the sense that facts have to be m...