The use of semantic knowledge in its various forms has become an important aspect in managing data in database and information systems. In the form of integrity constraints, it ha...
We consider the problem of extracting, manipulating, and managing biological pathways, especially protein-protein interaction pathways. We discuss here the Protein Interaction Ext...
The Hippocratic Oath has guided the conduct of physicians for centuries. Inspired by its tenet of preserving privacy, we argue that future database systems must include responsibi...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
As XML has evolved from a document markup language to a widely-used format for exchange of structured and semistructured data, managing large amounts of XML data has become increa...
Michael Rys, Donald D. Chamberlin, Daniela Floresc...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...