Background: For ecological studies, it is crucial to count on adequate descriptions of the environments and samples being studied. Such a description must be done in terms of thei...
Due to their capability for expressing semantics and relationships among data objects, semi-structured documents have become a common way of representing domain knowledge. Compari...
Henry Tan, Tharam S. Dillon, Fedja Hadzic, Elizabe...
We describe KDD-Cup 2000, the yearly competition in data mining. For the first time the Cup included insight problems in addition to prediction problems, thus posing new challenge...
Ron Kohavi, Carla E. Brodley, Brian Frasca, Llew M...
Schema evolution is an unavoidable consequence of the application development lifecycle. The two primary schemas in an application, the client conceptual object model and the pers...
James F. Terwilliger, Philip A. Bernstein, Adi Unn...
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...