A method for compression of large binary images is proposed for applications where spatial access to the image is required. The proposed method is a two-stage combination of forwa...
Streaming XML documents has many emerging applications. However, in this paper, we show that the restrictions imposed by data streaming are too restrictive for processing twig quer...
This paper explores the impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems using the individual manufacturing facility as the level of analysis. A model of ERP costs and benefit...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Background: Comparative genomics has become a significant research area in recent years, following the availability of a number of sequenced genomes. The comparison of genomes is ...
Sridevi Nagarajan, Willem Rens, James Stalker, Ton...