Structured and semi-structured object representations are getting more and more important for modern database applications. Examples for such data are hierarchical structures inclu...
Karin Kailing, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Stefan Schö...
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
Snapshot isolation (SI) provides significantly improved concurrency over 2PL, allowing reads to be non-blocking. Unfortunately, it can also lead to non-serializable executions in ...
Sudhir Jorwekar, Alan Fekete, Krithi Ramamritham, ...
Background: New systems biology studies require researchers to understand how interplay among myriads of biomolecular entities is orchestrated in order to achieve high-level cellu...
Tianxiao Huan, Andrey Y. Sivachenko, Scott H. Harr...
In manyoptimization and decision problems the objective function can be expressed as a linear combinationof competingcriteria, the weights of whichspecify the relative importanceo...