In biomedical articles, terms often refer to different protein entities. For example, an arbitrary occurrence of term p53 might denote thousands of proteins across a number of spec...
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
The model of overloading views is a facility allowing the programmer to separate some kinds of crosscutting concerns that occur during design, implementation and maintenance of dat...