In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...
In this position paper, we present MEADOWS, a software framework that we are building at HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) for modeling, emulation, and an...
Qiong Luo, Lionel M. Ni, Bingsheng He, Hejun Wu, W...
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...
As video data is penetrating many information systems the need for database support for video data evolves. In this paper we present a generic data model that captures the structu...
In a recent paper Prinz et al. (Nature Neurosci. 7, 1345-52 (2004)) have addressed the fundamental question, whether neural systems are built with a fixed blueprint of tightly con...