There has been considerable recent interest in the use of haplotype structure to aid in the design and analysis of case-control association studies searching for genetic predictors...
Current approaches to develop information extraction (IE) programs have largely focused on producing precise IE results. As such, they suffer from three major limitations. First, ...
Warren Shen, Pedro DeRose, Robert McCann, AnHai Do...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...