In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identiļ¬ers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identiļ¬...
Large XML data files, or XML databases, are now a common way to distribute scientific and bibliographic data, and storing such data efficiently is an important concern. A number o...
Abstract. From a theoretical point of view, the Semantic Web is understood in terms of a stack with RDF being one of its layers. A Semantic Web application operates on the common d...
Similarity search leveraging distance-based index structures is increasingly being used for both multimedia and biological database applications. We consider distance-based indexi...
Rui Mao, Weijia Xu, Smriti R. Ramakrishnan, Glen N...
With the emergence of new applications, e.g., computational biology, new software engineering techniques, social networks, etc., more data is in the form of graphs. Locating occur...