A large number of biological pathways have been assembled in later years, and are being stored in databases. Hence, the need for methods to analyse these pathways has emerged. One ...
SQL3generalizestherelationalmodelinto anobjectmodel abstract data types, multiple inheritance, and dynamic polymorphism. Tables may then contain collections (multisets) of objects...
This paper initially presents a brief but fairly exhaustive survey of solutions to the concurrency control problem for B-trees. We then propose a new solution, which is characteri...
We investigate a decentralised approach to committing transactions in a replicated database, under partial replication. Previous protocols either reexecute transactions entirely an...
Concepthierarchies organizedata andconceptsin hierarchical ]ormsor in certain partial order, which helps expressingknowledgeanddata relationships in databasesin concise, highlevel...