Eight years ago, functional dependencies, a concept from the theory of relational databases, were proposed as a mechanism for avoiding common problems with multiple parameter type...
: In order to meet their temporal constraints, current applications such as Web-based services and electronic commerce use the technique of data replication. To take the replicatio...
Workloads that comb through vast amounts of data are gaining importance in the sciences. These workloads consist of "needle in a haystack" queries that are long running ...
Similarity search in sequence databases is of paramount importance in bioinformatics research. As the size of the genomic databases increases, similarity search of proteins in the...
Logic and databases have gone a long way together since the advent of relational databases. Already the rst basic query languages for relational databases beside relational algebra...