Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. First, we study unrank...
The continuing and rapid increase in the number of fully sequenced genomes is creating new opportunities for comparative studies. However, although many genomic databases store da...
Intikhab Alam, Mike Cornell, Darren M. Soanes, Cor...
Object-based sequential programming has had a major impact on software engineering. However, object-based concurrent programming remains elusive as an effective programming tool. T...
: Current user interfaces for textual database searching leave much to be desired: individually, they are often confusing, and as a group, they are seriously inconsistent. We propo...