Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
The emergence of a large number of bioinformatics datasets on the Internet has resulted in the need for flexible and efficient approaches to integrate information from multiple bio...
Snehal Thakkar, José Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblo...
There is much effort to develop comprehensive support for the storage and querying of XML data in database management systems. The major developers have extended their systems to h...
Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Andrzej Hoppe, Wenbin M...
The ability to provide accurate and efficient result estimations of user queries is very important for the query optimizer in database systems. In this paper, we show that the tra...