An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
Main memory cache performance continues to play an important role in determining the overall performance of object-oriented, object-relational and XML databases. An effective metho...
High-quality annotation of biological data is central to bioinformatics. Annotation using terms from ontologies provides reliable computational access to data. The Gene Ontology (...
Michael Bada, Daniele Turi, Robin McEntire, Robert...
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...
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...