We propose a micro-benchmark for XML data management to aid engineers in designing improved XML processing engines. This benchmark is inherently different from application-level b...
Kanda Runapongsa, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadish...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Advances in network technologies and the emergence of Grid computing have both increased the need and provided the infrastructure for computation and data intensive applications to...
Anastasios Gounaris, Rizos Sakellariou, Norman W. ...
In an era that, searching the WWW for information becomes a tedious task, it is obvious that mainly search engines and other data mining mechanisms need to be enhanced with charact...
The potential for physical flora collections to support scientific research is being enhanced by rapid development of digital databases that represent characteristics of the physic...
Tom Auer, Alan M. MacEachren, Craig McCabe, Scott ...