We discuss the de nition of keys for XML documents, paying particular attention to the concept of a relative key, which is commonly used in hierarchically structured documents and...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carm...
This paper proposes an overview of the IMSA application, a patient-oriented medical information system. IMSA stands for Interactive Multimedia System for Auto-medication and aims ...
Background: Complex biological database systems have become key computational tools used daily by scientists and researchers. Many of these systems must be capable of executing on...
Marko Srdanovic, Ulf Schenk, Michael Schwieger, Fa...
There exist many interrelated information sources on the Internet that can be categorized into structured (database) and semistructured (documents). A key challenge is to integrat...
Background: Bacterial typing schemes based on the sequences of genes encoding surface antigens require databases that provide a uniform, curated, and widely accepted nomenclature ...