The growing interest in genomic research has caused an explosive growth in the size of DNA databases making it increasely challenging to perform searches on them. In this paper, w...
Zhenqiang Tan, Xia Cao, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. ...
We present a formal analysis of the database layout problem, i.e., the problem of determining how database objects such as tables and indexes are assigned to disk drives. Optimizin...
Background: The integration of biomedical information is essential for tackling medical problems. We describe a data model in the domain of flow cytometry (FC) allowing for massiv...
John Drakos, Marina Karakantza, Nicholas C. Zoumbo...
?Past R-tree studies have focused on the number of nodes visited as a metric of query performance. Since database systems usually include a buffering mechanism, we propose that the...
In the relational model it has been shown that the flat relational algebra has the same expressive power as the nested relational algebra, as far as queries over flat relations ...
Wim Le Page, Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jan P...