XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
Abstract. Biometric identification has emerged as a reliable means of controlling access to both physical and virtual spaces. In spite of the rapid proliferation of large-scale dat...
MDM is a tool that enables the users to de ne schemes of di erent data models and to perform translations of schemes from one model to another. These functionalities can be at the...
The World Wide Web is a collection of databases as well as web sites. Databases associated with web sites provide public access via query forms on web pages. They constitute an en...
Background: Genome databases contain diverse kinds of information, including gene annotations and nucleotide and amino acid sequences. It is not easy to integrate such information...