Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
The concept of dominance has recently attracted much interest in the context of skyline computation. Given an Ndimensional data set S, a point p is said to dominate q if p is bett...
Cuiping Li, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. H. Tung, Sha...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, with or without ontological constraints, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and d...
Today, there are several approaches supporting an integrated processing of XML and (object-)relational data sources. However, each of these approaches favors a single data model f...
Given a set of multi-dimensional points, the skyline contains the best points according to any preference function that is monotone on all axes. In practice, applications that req...