The issue of ®nding similar 3-D surface segments arises in many recent applications of spatial database systems, such as molecular biology, medical imaging, CAD, and geographic i...
Bitmap indexes are known to be efficient for ad-hoc range queries that are common in data warehousing and scientific applications. However, they suffer from the curse of cardina...
Exploratory ad-hoc queries could return too many answers ? a phenomenon commonly referred to as "information overload". In this paper, we propose to automatically catego...
Efficient query processing in P2P-based Web integration systems poses a variety of challenges resulting from the strict decentralization and limited knowledge. As a special probl...
Background: Macromolecular visualization as well as automated structural and functional annotation tools play an increasingly important role in the post-genomic era, contributing ...