The SQL queries produced in XML-to-SQL query translation are often unnecessarily complex, even for simple input XML queries. In this paper we argue that relational systems can do ...
A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
This paper is concerned with the efficient execution of multiplesequence alignmentmethodsin a multipleclientenvironment. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a computationally ex...
In this paper we introduce the problem of Constrained Subspace Skyline Queries. This class of queries can be thought of as a generalization of subspace skyline queries using range...
Table partitioning splits a table into smaller parts that can be accessed, stored, and maintained independent of one another. From their traditional use in improving query perform...