Identifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a difficult task because of the manyto-many mapping between names and their referents. We...
Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
Commercial OLAP systems usually treat OLAP dimensions as static entities. In practice, dimension updates are often necessary in order to adapt the multidimensional database to chan...
Abstract. Protein homology prediction is a crucial step in templatebased protein structure prediction. The functions that rank the proteins in a database according to their homolog...
Abstract. Due to improvements in image acquisition and storage technology, terabyte-sized databases of images are nowadays common. This abundance of data leads us to two basic prob...