Many evolving database applications warrant the use of non-traditional indexing mechanisms beyond B+-trees and hash tables. SP-GiST is an extensible indexing framework that broade...
The ongoing revolution in life sciences research is producing vast amounts of genetic and proteomic sequence data. Scientists want to pose increasingly complex queries on this dat...
Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel, James S. Friedman,...
Real datasets are often large enough to necessitate data compression. Traditional `syntactic' data compression methods treat the table as a large byte string and operate at t...
H. V. Jagadish, Raymond T. Ng, Beng Chin Ooi, Anth...
We extend Haskell with regular expression patterns. Regular expression patterns provide means for matching and extracting data which goes well beyond ordinary pattern matching as ...
With few exceptions, macros have traditionally been viewed as operations on syntax trees or even on plain strings. This view makes macros seem ad hoc, and is at odds with two desi...