Like any other database application object database applications are subject to evolution. Evolution is, however, critical in object databases because it is the very characteristic...
Computational experiments have become an integral part of the scientific method, but reproducing, archiving, and querying them is still a challenge. The first barrier to a wider...
We present an extremely minimal ecosystem model which takes account of thermodynamic constraints on the organisms’ metabolism. This suggests a way to test the application of a hy...
A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
straction for Information Management Michael Franklin University of California, Berkeley Alon Halevy Google Inc. and U. Washington David Maier Portland State University The develo...