Publicly available biological resources form a complex maze of highly heterogeneous data sources, interconnected by navigational capabilities and applications. Although it offers ...
Top-k queries based on ranking elements of multidimensional datasets are a fundamental building block for many kinds of information discovery. The best known general-purpose algor...
In a Web database that dynamically provides information in response to user queries, two distinct schemas, interface schema (the schema users can query) and result schema (the sch...
Jiying Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Frederick H. Lochovsky, ...
The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) provides a standardised framework for object-oriented models. An instance of a MOF model contains objects and links whose interfaces are entirely de...
There is much current interest in publishing and viewing databases as XML documents. The general benefits of this approach follow from the popularity of XML and the tool set avai...