A variety of heterogenous data sources is available in the field of molecular biology. Our focus lies on the biological sequence data, i. e. data maintained in collections like EM...
Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
Workflow management, one of the important technologies for supporting collaborative work, requires database technologies like distributed data management or transaction management...
A major performance bottleneck for database systems is the memory hierarchy. The performance of the memory hierarchy is directly related to how the content of disk pages maps to t...
Biometric technologies are each time more demanded for security applications. In this sense, systems for identifying people are gaining popularity, especially in governmental sect...