Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring highlevel analytical information for file management and analysis. T...
H. Howie Huang, Nan Zhang 0004, Wei Wang, Gautam D...
We propose a new way to raise the level of discourse in the programming process: permit ambiguity, but manage it by linking it to unambiguous examples. This allows programming env...