The potential for physical flora collections to support scientific research is being enhanced by rapid development of digital databases that represent characteristics of the physic...
Tom Auer, Alan M. MacEachren, Craig McCabe, Scott ...
Automated analysis of human affective behavior has attracted increasing attention in recent years. With the research shift toward spontaneous behavior, many challenges have come to...
Database evolution is the process of updating the schema of a database or data warehouse (schema evolution) and evolving the data to the updated schema (data evolution). Database ...
Ziyang Liu, Sivaramakrishnan Natarajan, Bin He, Hu...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
The continuing threat of infectious disease and future pandemics, coupled to the continuous increase of drug-resistant pathogens, makes the discovery of new and better vaccines im...
Hifzur Rahman Ansari, Darren R. Flower, G. P. S. R...
The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...
Abstract. This paper presents the semantics of database mappings in the relational database (DB) category, based on the power-view monad T and monadic algebras. The semantics can b...
—This work introduces a link-analysis procedure for discovering relationships in a relational database or a graph, generalizing both simple and multiple correspondence analysis. ...
Matching dependencies were recently introduced as declarative rules for data cleaning and entity resolution. Enforcing a matching dependency on a database instance identifies the ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Solmaz Kolahi, Laks V. S. La...
Abstract. We present a categorical denotational semantics for a database mapping, based on views, in the most general framework of a database integration/exchange. Developed databa...