With an ever growing complexity and data volume, the administration of today's relational database management systems has become one of the most important cost factors in thei...
Abstract. Physical database design tools rely on a DBA-provided workload to pick an "optimal" set of indexes and materialized views. Such an approach fails to capture sce...
Background: The problem of inferring the evolutionary history and constructing the phylogenetic tree with high performance has become one of the major problems in computational bi...
In this paper, we present a novel approach to contentsbased image retrieval. The method hinges in the use of quasi-random sampling to retrieve those images in a database which are...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...