In this paper we suggest the requirements for an open platform designed for the description, distribution and analysis of genetic polymorphism data. This platform is discussed in ...
Boolean expression simplification is a well-known problem in the history of Computer Science. The problem of determining prime implicates from an arbitrary Boolean expression has...
Many location-based services require rich and expressive query language support for filtering large amounts of information. In prominent location-based services thousands of conti...
In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
In bitemporal databases, current facts and transaction states are modelled using a special value to represent the current time (such as a minimum or maximum timestamp or NULL). Pr...