In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
In this paper, we present the results that we have obtained by comparing and testing three well-known database middleware solutions. We have analyzed their features related to glo...
The K-Closest-Pairs Query (K-CPQ), a type of distance join in spatial databases, discovers the K pairs of objects formed from two different datasets with the K smallest distances....
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
A Business Process (BP) consists of some business activities undertaken by one or more organizations in pursuit of some business goal. Tools for querying and analyzing BP specifica...
In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...