UML class diagrams (UCDs) are the de-facto standard formalism for the analysis and design of information systems. By adopting formal language techniques to capture constraints expr...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Yazmin Ang&eac...
Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is shifting towards a Web scenario in which exposed schemas ar...
Spatial data are common in many scientific and commercial domains such as geographical information systems and gene/protein expression profiles. Querying for distribution patterns...
Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Si...
Relational database systems have been the dominating technology to manage and analyze large data warehouses. Moreover, the ER model, the standard in database design, has a close r...
Carlos Ordonez, Il-Yeol Song, Carlos Garcia-Alvara...
Abstract. Sensor networks are increasingly used across various application domains. Their usage has the advantage of automated, often continuous, monitoring of activities and event...
We researched to try to find a way to reduce the cost of nearest neighbor searches in metric spaces. Many similarity search indexes recursively divide a region into subregions by u...
The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
Abstract. Tandem mass spectrometry is a widely used method for protein and peptide sequences identification. Since the mass spectra contain up to 80% of noise and many other inaccu...