On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies are being used widely, but the lack of effective means of handling data imprecision, which occurs when exact values are not known...
Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis ...
In a spatial database, an object may extend arbitrarily in space. As a result, many spatial data structures e.g., the quadtree, the cell tree, the R+-tree represent an object by p...
Understanding the performance and dynamic behavior of workflow is crucial in being able to modify, maintain, and improve it. A particularly difficult aspect of measuring the perfor...
Background: Despite increasing interest in applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to biomedical text, whether this technology can facilitate tasks such as database curation re...
Nikiforos Karamanis, Ruth Seal, Ian Lewin, Peter M...
Rules provide an expressive means for implementing database behavior: They cope with changes and their ramifications. Rules are commonly used for integrity enforcement, i.e., for ...