There is a critical need to design and develop tools tract away the fundamental complexity of XML-based Web services specifications and toolkits, and provide an elegant, intuitive...
Chaitali Gupta, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael R. Head, ...
The XML data is order-sensitive. The order problem, that is how ordered XML documents and order-sensitive queries over it can be efficiently supported when mapped into the unorde...
Ling Wang, Song Wang, Brian Murphy, Elke A. Runden...
The task of IMRT planning, particularly in head-and-neck cancer, is a difficult one, often requiring days of work from a trained dosimetrist. One of the main challenges is the pres...
Patricio D. Simari, Binbin Wu, Robert Jacques, Ale...
In this paper, we discuss issues involving temporal data fragmentation, temporal query processing, and query optimization in multiprocessor database machines. We propose parallel ...
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...