One of the most important, common and critical management issues lies in determining the "best" project portfolio out of a given set of investment proposals. As this dec...
Karl F. Doerner, Walter J. Gutjahr, Richard F. Har...
In many database applications, there are opportunities for multiple top-N queries to be evaluated at the same time. Often it is more cost effective to evaluate multiple such queri...
Background: Drug discovery and chemical biology are exceedingly complex and demanding enterprises. In recent years there are been increasing awareness about the importance of pred...
A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
Background: Microarray devices permit a genome-scale evaluation of gene function. This technology has catalyzed biomedical research and development in recent years. As many import...