Biologists are increasingly using databases for storing and managing their data. Biological databases typically consist of a mixture of raw data, metadata, sequences, annotations,...
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref
Abstract. Database systems are islands of structure in a sea of unstructured data sources. Several real-world applications now need to create bridges for smooth integration of semi...
In distributed database systems, tables are frequently fragmented and replicated over a number of sites in order to reduce network communication costs. How to fragment, when to rep...
Jon Olav Hauglid, Norvald H. Ryeng, Kjetil N&oslas...
The All Nearest Neighbor (ANN) operation is a commonly used primitive for analyzing large multi-dimensional datasets. Since computing ANN is very expensive, in previous works R*-t...
Today's Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) techniques are based on the "k-nearest neighbors" (kNN) model. They retrieve images from a single neighborhood using lo...