A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
The design and implementation of advanced personalized database applications requires a preference-driven approach. Representing preferences as strict partial orders is a good cho...