Modeling objects by probability density functions (pdf) is a new powerful method to represent complex objects in databases. By representing an object as a pdf, e.g. a Gaussian, it...
The ongoing revolution in life sciences research is producing vast amounts of genetic and proteomic sequence data. Scientists want to pose increasingly complex queries on this dat...
Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel, James S. Friedman,...
We study in this paper provenance information for queries with aggregation. Provenance information was studied in the context of various query languages that do not allow for aggr...
With the increasing popularity of XML, there arises the need for managing and querying information in this form. Several query languages, such as XQuery, have been proposed which ...
Damien K. Fisher, Franky Lam, William M. Shui, Ray...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...