A vertically integrated market consists of potentially competing companies who supply each other with products and services. Information technology can be employed to improve the b...
A flexible method to store XML documents in relational or object-relational databases is presented that is based on an adaptable fragmentation. Whereas most known approaches decom...
We consider the problem of automated index selection for embedded control programs (ECPs). Such systems have the property that the transaction types, which can consist of queries ...
We consider the problem of finding similarities in protein structure databases. Our techniques extract feature vectors on triplets of SSEs (Secondary Structure Elements). Later, ...
Stand-alone ranking systems based on highly optimized inverted file structures are generally considered `the' solution for building search engines. Observing various developm...