As random access memory gets cheaper, it becomes increasingly affordable to build computers with large main memories. We consider decision support workloads within the context of...
Many web queries seek information about named entities (such as products or people). Web search engines federate such entity-oriented queries to relevant structured databases; the...
Many Web sites support keyword search on their spatial data, such as business listings and photos. In these systems, inconsistencies and errors can exist in both queries and the d...
With the proliferation of image data, the need to search and retrieve images efficiently and accurately from a large image database or a collection of image databases has drastica...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...
The Protein Information Resource (PIR; http://wwwnbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/ ) supports research on molecular evolution, functional genomics, and computational biology by maintaining...
Winona C. Barker, John S. Garavelli, Daniel H. Haf...