In this paper, we present a query system that has been implemented in a practical biological database - GPCRDB. Distinguishing features of this system include: smart query relaxat...
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 sites...
We address the problem of efficient support for active rules in XML database systems. We describe a general form of active rules for XML based on XQuery and a previously defined...
The Multimedia Description Standard MPEG-7 is an International Standard since February 2002. It defines a huge set of description classes for multimedia content, for its creation ...
In a database system, read operations are much more common than write operations, and consequently, database systems have been read optimized. As the size of main memory increases...