We describe the architecture of a federated system designed to allow the integration of structured, relational, data together with unstructured multimedia data. Two characteristic...
Alan Cole, Jim Christensen, Howard Sachar, Oleg Du...
Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data fr...
Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Samuel...
Optimization problems are typically addressed by purely automatic approaches. For multi-objective problems, however, a single best solution often does not exist. In this case, it ...
Background: The Tissue Microarray (TMA) facilitates high-throughput analysis of hundreds of tissue specimens simultaneously. However, bottlenecks in the storage and manipulation o...
Catherine M. Conway, Deirdre O'Shea, Sallyann O'Br...
Clustering validation is a long standing challenge in the clustering literature. While many validation measures have been developed for evaluating the performance of clustering al...