Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have recently been proposed as extensions of classical functional dependencies that apply to a certain subset of the relation, as specif...
Graham Cormode, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Andrew Mc...
— There is an ever increasing need for storing data in smaller and smaller form factors driven by the ubiquitous use and increased demands of consumer electronics. A new approach...
Users who are unfamiliar with database query languages can search XML data sets using keyword queries. Current approaches for supporting such queries are either for textcentric XM...
Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
Background: Similarity inference, one of the main bioinformatics tasks, has to face an exponential growth of the biological data. A classical approach used to cope with this data ...