Background: Sequence searches are routinely employed to detect and annotate related proteins. However, a rapid growth of databases necessitates a frequent repetition of sequence s...
Valdemaras Repsys, Mindaugas Margelevicius, Ceslov...
In this paper we address the task of finding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolat...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. These relations express whether a given set of ...
To deal with data uncertainty, existing probabilistic database systems augment tuples with attribute-level or tuple-level probability values, which are loaded into the database al...
Ravi Jampani, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Luis Leopoldo Per...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...