Background: Similarity inference, one of the main bioinformatics tasks, has to face an exponential growth of the biological data. A classical approach used to cope with this data ...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Several architectures have been recently proposed that store relational data in encrypted form on untrusted relational databases. Such architectures permit the creation of novel I...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
Multidimensional access methods have shown high potential for significant performance improvements in various application domains. However, only few approaches have made their way...
Frank Ramsak, Volker Markl, Robert Fenk, Martin Zi...
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...