Background: Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a useful tool in bioinformatics. Although many MSA algorithms have been developed, there is still room for improvement in accuracy...
The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the research...
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Abstract. Dealing with heterogeneous ontologies by means of semantic mappings has become an important area of research and a number of systems for discovering mappings between onto...