Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...
The intent of peer data management systems (PDMS) is to share as much data as possible. However, in many applications leveraging sensitive data, users demand adequate mechanisms to...
When mining large databases, the data extraction problem and the interface between the database and data mining algorithm become important issues. Rather than giving a mining algo...
The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Database at The Jackson Laboratory provides a comprehensive public resource about the laboratory mouse. MGI curated data types include gene repr...
Donnie Qi, Judith A. Blake, James A. Kadin, Joel E...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...