The full integration of information retrieval (IR) features into a database management system (DBMS) has long been recognized as both a significant goal and a challenging undertak...
Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Ja...
There is much effort to develop comprehensive support for the storage and querying of XML data in database management systems. The major developers have extended their systems to h...
Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Andrzej Hoppe, Wenbin M...
Large scale data analysis and mining activities, such as identifying interesting trends, making unusual patterns to stand out and verifying hypotheses, require sophisticated infor...
Abstract: Model based development, like proposed by the OMG’s Model Driven Arre (MDA), aims to raise the level of abstraction from working on the code to working with models. For...
Randomness is inherent to biochemistry: at each instant, the sequence of reactions that fires is a matter of chance. Some biological systems exploit such randomness, choosing betw...