—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
Background: Biological processes are mediated by networks of interacting genes and proteins. Efforts to map and understand these networks are resulting in the proliferation of int...
Svetlana Pacifico, Guozhen Liu, Stephen Guest, Jod...
We introduce ImageMap, as a method for indexing and similarity searching in Image DataBases (IDBs). ImageMap answers "queries by example", involving any number of object...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Christos Faloutsos, King...
The problem of skyline computation has attracted considerable research attention. In the categorical domain the problem becomes more complicated, primarily due to the partially-or...
Nikos Sarkas, Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Anthony K. ...
Background: SeqHound has been developed as an integrated biological sequence, taxonomy, annotation and 3-D structure database system. It provides a high-performance server platfor...
Katerina Michalickova, Gary D. Bader, Michel Dumon...