In order to guarantee efficient query processing together with industrial strength, spatial index structures have to be integrated into fully-fledged object-relational database ma...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Probabilistic data is coming as a new deluge along with the technical advances on geographical tracking, multimedia processing, sensor network and RFID. While similarity search is...
The popularity of XML has motivated the development of novel XML processing tools many of which embed the XPath language for XML querying, transformation, constraint specificatio...
John W. S. Liu, Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo
We present a technique for organizing data in spatial databases with non-convex domains based on an automatic characterization using the medial-axis transform (MAT). We define a t...
Eric A. Perlman, Randal C. Burns, Michael M. Kazhd...
Background: Alignment of RNA secondary structures is important in studying functional RNA motifs. In recent years, much progress has been made in RNA motif finding and structure a...
Jianghui Liu, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Jun Hu, Bin Tia...