A join of two relations in real databases is usually much smaller than their cartesian product. This means that most of the combinations of tuples in the crossproduct of the respe...
The presentation will mainly cover (1) What is HowNet? HowNet is an on-line common-sense knowledgebase unveiling inter-conceptual relationships and interattribute relationships of...
Database support of time-varying phenomena typically assumes that entities change in a linear fashion. Many phenomena, however, change cyclically over time. Examples include monsoo...
Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer, Patrick J. Hay...
We propose strategies to efficiently execute a query workload, which consists of multiple related queries submitted against a scientific dataset, on a distributed-memory system in...
Background: The biological interpretation of large-scale gene expression data is one of the paramount challenges in current bioinformatics. In particular, placing the results in t...