Motivation: Database search programs such as FASTA, BLAST or a rigorous Smith–Waterman algorithm produce lists of database entries, which are assumed to be related to the query....
Database normalization is a central part of database design in which we re-organise the data stored so as to progressively ensure that as few anomalies occur as possible upon inser...
In this paper we present a simple database definition language: that of categories and functors. A database schema is a category and a state is a set-valued functor. We show that m...
As the Grid moves towards adopting a service-oriented architecture built on Web services, coupling between processes will rely on secure, reliable, and transacted messages and be s...
Zhuoan Jiao, Jasmin L. Wason, Wenbin Song, Fenglia...