Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
III this paper we address the problem of controlling the execution of a query optimizer. We describe a control for the optimization process that is based on planning. The controll...
In several image applications, it is necessary to retrieve specific line segments born a potentially very large set. In this paper, we consider the problem of indexing straight li...
Inclusion between XML types is important but expensive, and is much more expensive when unordered types are considered. We prove here that inclusion for XML types with interleavin...
Abstract. The parsing schemata formalism allows us to describe parsing algorithms in a simple, declarative way by capturing their fundamenntics while abstracting low-level detail. ...