In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
Efficient query processing is one of the basic needs for data mining algorithms. Clustering algorithms, association rule mining algorithms and OLAP tools all rely on efficient quer...
Background: Obtaining physiological insights from microarray experiments requires computational techniques that relate gene expression data to functional information. Traditionall...
Anne M. Denton, Jianfei Wu, Megan K. Townsend, Pre...
The rapidly increasing number of XML-related applications indicates a growing need for efficient, dynamic, and native XML support in database management systems (XDBMS). So far, bo...
Business rules are a cornerstone of the consistency management of e-commerce data. The concurrency of transactions by multiple customers of e-commerce services (e.g., seat reserva...