Much of biology works by applying prior knowledge (`what is known') to an unknown entity, rather than the application of a set of axioms that will elicit knowledge. In additi...
Science is becoming very data intensive1 . Today's astronomy datasets with tens of millions of galaxies already present substantial challenges for data mining. In less than 1...
We are building a biomedical information resource consisting of digitized x-ray images and associated textual data from national health surveys. This resource, the Web-based Medic...
The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...