Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
Abstract. Given a point query Q in multi-dimensional space, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) queries return the K closest answers in the database with respect to Q. In this scenario, it is...
As web forum has become an enormous collection of highly valuable opinions and commentaries, more and more researchers express strong interests on it. However, most of them pay at...
Abstract. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in environments with distributed RDF/OWL, we present a query optimization algorithm to identify the potentially relevan...
This paper considers the theory of database queries on the complex value data model with external functions. Motivated by concerns regarding query evaluation, we first identify re...