Top-k pairs queries have received significant attention by the research community. k-closest pairs queries, k-furthest pairs queries and their variants are among the most well stu...
Zhitao Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, We...
WormBase (http://wormbase.org), the public database for genomics and biology of Caenorhabditis elegans, has been restructured for stronger performance and expanded for richer biol...
Erich M. Schwarz, Igor Antoshechkin, Carol Bastian...
A "plan diagram" is a pictorial enumeration of the execution plan choices of a database query optimizer over the relational selectivity space. We have shown recently tha...
The construction of reactive systems often requires the combination of different individual functionalities, thus leading to a complex overall behavior. To achieve an efficient co...
The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of available information has made web search a time consuming and complex process. The large num...
Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, A...