Background: Bacterial typing schemes based on the sequences of genes encoding surface antigens require databases that provide a uniform, curated, and widely accepted nomenclature ...
Our research explores a new database extension. Our aim is to see how far it is possible to support collaborative editing and document provenance with database technology, and exte...
XML and XQuery semantics are very sensitive to the order of the produced output. Although pattern-tree based algebraic approaches are becoming more and more popular for evaluating...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
Several proposals have been published in recent years for database programming languages (DBPLs), many of which have been object-oriented. Our goal in this paper is not to argue f...
Antonio Albano, Alan Dearle, Giorgio Ghelli, Chris...