Object-oriented database OODB users bring with them large quantities of legacy data megabytes and even gigabytes. In addition, scienti c OODB users continually generate new data. ...
Background: The expressed sequence tag (EST) methodology is an attractive option for the generation of sequence data for species for which no completely sequenced genome is availa...
Query Personalization is the process of dynamically enhancing a query with related user preferences stored in a user profile with the aim of providing personalized answers. The un...
: Computer Assisted Surgery seeks data from various sources related to surgical knowledge, which is mostly represented in the form of discrete databases. However, databases serve a...
Large graph databases are commonly collected and analyzed in numerous domains. For reasons related to either space efficiency or for privacy protection (e.g., in the case of socia...