Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
File I/O data is interpreted by high performance parallel/distributed applications mostly as a sequence of arbitrary bits. This leads to the situation where data is ’volatile’...
A recurring theme during the CODATA 2000 conference (Lake Maggiore, Italy, 15 - 19 October 2000) was the increasing convergence in data-rich branches of science between the storag...
Emerging computational paradigms such as global and ubiquitous computing require some rethinking and innovative research ideas in many computer science areas. In this work, we aim...
: Data management in the life sciences has evolved from simple storage of data to complex information systems providing additional functionalities like analysis and visualization c...