Rewriting queries using views is a powerful technique that has applications in data integration, data warehousing and query optimization. Query rewriting in relational databases i...
The quest to nd models usefully characterizing data is a process central to the scienti c method, and has been carried out on many fronts. Researchers from an expanding number of ...
The goal of incremental cryptography is to design cryptographic algorithms with the property that having applied the algorithm to a document, it is possible to quickly update the ...
Abstract. In this paper we describe an approach to the representation and implementation of agent-based systems where the behaviour of an individual agent is represented by a set o...
Chloroplast microsatellites have been widely used in population genetic studies of conifers in recent years. However, their haplotype configurations suggest that they could have hi...