Sovereign information sharing allows autonomous entities to compute queries across their databases in such a way that nothing apart from the result is revealed. We describe an imp...
Rakesh Agrawal, Dmitri Asonov, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
An essential problem for biologists is the processing and evaluation of BLAST results. We advocate the deployment of database technology and describe a userdriven tool, called Bla...
William G. Farmerie, Joachim Hammer, Li Liu, Marku...
The research proposed here concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a spoken query retrieval (SQR) system to access large document databases via voice. The main cha...
Many data objects in the real world have attributes about location and time. Such spatiotemporal objects can be found in applications such Geographic Information Systems (GIS), env...
In many database applications, there are opportunities for multiple top-N queries to be evaluated at the same time. Often it is more cost effective to evaluate multiple such queri...