Most people consider a database is merely a data repository that supports data storage and retrieval. Actually, a database contains rich, inter-related, multi-typed data and infor...
Background: Motivated by a biomedical database set up by our group, we aimed to develop a generic database front-end with embedded knowledge discovery and analysis features. A maj...
The Propel Distributed Services Platform (PDSP) is the core software product of Propel, a new Internet infrastructure software company. The PDSP product was created to enable Java...
Michael J. Carey, Steve Kirsch, Mary Roth, Bert Va...
evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...