XML is a flexible and powerful tool that enables information and security sharing in heterogeneous environments. Scalable technologies are needed to effectively manage the growing...
Rebecca Cathey, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen,...
Background: The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest ap...
The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce...
Star queries are the most prevalent kind of queries in data warehousing, OLAP and business intelligence applications. Thus, there is an imperative need for efficiently processing ...
Nikos Karayannidis, Aris Tsois, Timos K. Sellis, R...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...