As large-scale databases become commonplace, there has been signi cant interest in mining them for commercial purposes. One of the basic tasks that underlies many of these mining ...
Abstract. Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express...
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Orteg...
XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...
Background: Most non-coding RNA families exert their function by means of a conserved, common secondary structure. The Rfam data base contains more than five hundred structurally ...