Advanced database systems face a great challenge raised by the emergence of massive, complex structural data in bioinformatics, chem-informatics, and many other applications. The ...
Background: Large molecular sequence databases are fundamental resources for modern bioscientists. Whether for project-specific purposes or sharing data with colleagues, it is oft...
Scott A. Givan, Christopher M. Sullivan, James C. ...
Similarity search in time series databases is an important research direction. Several methods have been proposed in order to provide algorithms for efficient query processing in t...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Yannis Mano...
Recently, the problem of efficiently supporting advanced query operators, such as nearest neighbor or range queries, over multidimensional data in widely distributed environments...
In this paper, we propose a new metric index, called M+ -tree, which is a tree dynamically organized for large datasets in metric spaces. The proposed M+ -tree takes full advantag...