All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
The Gene Ontology (GO) vocabulary has been extensively explored to analyze the functions of coexpressed genes. However, despite its extended use in Biology and Medical Sciences, t...
Abstract. The Internet has instigated a critical need for automated tools that facilitate integrating countless databases. Since non-technical end users are often the ultimate repo...
On-line analytical processing (OLAP) requires e cient processing of complex decision support queries over very large databases. It is well accepted that pre-computed data cubes ca...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Bo Zhou, Ben Kao, Hongjun Lu...