Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...
The efficient management of interval data represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tree1 ), an effi...
The history of molecular biology is punctuated by a series of discoveries demonstrating the surprising breadth of biological roles of ribonucleic acid (RNA). An ensemble of evoluti...
Product development requires the ability to check design consistency, to verify design properties, and to answer questions about a design's possible implementations. These tas...