Data mining evolved as a collection of applicative problems and efficient solution algorithms relative to rather peculiar problems, all focused on the discovery of relevant infor...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...
We present a formal framework for capturing the provenance of data appearing in XQuery views of XML. Building on previous work on relations and their (positive) query languages, w...
Inferring transcriptional regulatory networks from geneexpression data remains a challenging problem, in part because of the noisy nature of the data and the lack of strong networ...