In the domain of biomedical publications, synonyms and homonyms are omnipresent and pose a great challenge for document retrieval systems. For this year's TREC Genomics Ad ho...
There are many technologies for distributed processing/interoperation, including CORBA, DCE, DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans, Java IDL, JDBC, etc. Most promising, is the emergence of ...
Steven A. Demurjian, T. C. Ting, J. Balthazar, H. ...
This paper presents a new design for a census-based binational geographic information system. GIS has had limited application intra-censally i.e. between nations. The reasons are t...
James B. Pick, W. James Hettrick, Nanda K. Viswana...
The avMlability of large EST(Expressed Sequence Tag)databases has led to a revolution in the waynew genes are cloned. Difficulties arise, however,due to high error rates and redun...
Previous researchers note the problem for semantic optimisation of database queries caused by its production of a large number of semantically equivalent alternative queries, from...