Although research in data integration has become one of the main issues in [6], geographic data integration is still a laborious and complicated problem, even for specialists. Geo...
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and disti...
Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, Fran&...
Abstract. An object o of a database D is called a hot item, if there is a sufficiently large population of other objects in D that are similar to o. In other words, hot items are ...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...