In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
An e ective bu er management system is crucial for any database management system. While much work has been expended to provide extensible data types,extensible query languages an...
Effective analysis of genome sequences and associated functional data requires access to many different kinds of biological information. For example, when analysing gene expressio...
Mike Cornell, Norman W. Paton, Shengli Wu, Carole ...
Recent interests on XML, Semantic Web, and Web ontology, among other topics, have sparked a renewed interest on graph-structured databases. A fundamental query on graphs is the re...
Abstract. In the framework of possibility theory, a tool named `fuzzy pattern matching' (FPM) has been proposed in the eighties and since successfully used in flexible queryin...