Recently XML is the standard format used for the exchange of data between information systems and is also frequently applied as a logical database model. If we use XML as a logical...
Background: With the ever-increasing number of gene sequences in the public databases, generating and analyzing multiple sequence alignments becomes increasingly time consuming. N...
Xiao I. Liu, Neeraj Korde, Ursula Jakob, Lars I. L...
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...
A k-NN query finds the k nearest-neighbors of a given point from a point database. When it is sufficient to measure object distance using the Euclidian distance, the key to effici...
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Kai Xu 0003...
Counting in general, and estimating the cardinality of (multi-) sets in particular, is highly desirable for a large variety of applications, representing a foundational block for ...
Nikos Ntarmos, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Weikum