An essential problem for biologists is the processing and evaluation of BLAST results. We advocate the deployment of database technology and describe a userdriven tool, called Bla...
William G. Farmerie, Joachim Hammer, Li Liu, Marku...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
We describe the integration of a structuredtext retrieval system (TextMachine) into an object-oriented database system (OpenODB). We use the external function capability of the da...
Sensor networks are widely used in many applications for collecting information from the physical environment. In these applications, it is usually necessary to track the relation...