PRINTS is a database of protein family ‘fingerprints’ offering a diagnostic resource for newly-determined sequences. By contrast with PROSITE, which uses single consensus expr...
Terri K. Attwood, Michael E. Beck, Darren R. Flowe...
Abstract: We propose a framework for the specification of extensible database systems. A particular goal is to implement a software component for parsing and rule-based optimizatio...
We describe the architecture of a federated system designed to allow the integration of structured, relational, data together with unstructured multimedia data. Two characteristic...
Alan Cole, Jim Christensen, Howard Sachar, Oleg Du...
A multimedia presentation refers to the presentation of multimedia data using output devices such as monitors for text and video, and speakers for audio. Each presentation consist...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...