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SDB
1995
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15 years 1 months ago
A Semantics-based Approach to Design of Query Languages for Partial Information
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
Leonid Libkin
PODS
2006
ACM
137views Database» more  PODS 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Data exchange: computing cores in polynomial time
Data exchange deals with inserting data from one database into another database having a different schema. We study and solve a central computational problem of data exchange, nam...
Georg Gottlob, Alan Nash
VLDB
1994
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
15 years 2 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
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...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
BMCBI
2011
14 years 1 months ago
Structator: fast index-based search for RNA sequence-structure patterns
Background: The secondary structure of RNA molecules is intimately related to their function and often more conserved than the sequence. Hence, the important task of searching dat...
Fernando Meyer, Stefan Kurtz, Rolf Backofen, Sebas...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Second Life as a Medium for Lecturing in College Courses
Second Life is an online virtual world that is gaining popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. However, the number of...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Jeffrey L. Gross