Index tuning, i.e., selecting the indexes appropriate for a workload, is a crucial problem in database system tuning. In this paper, we solve index tuning for large problem instan...
Background: In biological sequence analysis, position specific scoring matrices (PSSMs) are widely used to represent sequence motifs in nucleotide as well as amino acid sequences....
Michael Beckstette, Robert Homann, Robert Giegeric...
Increased availability of large repositories of chemical compounds has created new challenges and opportunities for the application of data-mining and indexing techniques to probl...
Background: Similaritysearch in chemical structure databases is an important problem with many applications in chemical genomics, drug design, and efficient chemical probe screeni...
Xiaohong Wang, Jun Huan, Aaron M. Smalter, Gerald ...
Terrain can be approximated by a triangular mesh consisting millions of 3D points. Multiresolution triangular mesh (MTM) structures are designed to support applications that use t...