A pattern database (PDB) is a heuristic function implemented as a lookup table that stores the lengths of optimal solutions for subproblem instances. Standard PDBs have a distinct...
Ariel Felner, Richard E. Korf, Ram Meshulam, Rober...
euGenes is a genome information system and database that provides a common summary of eukaryote genes and genomes, at web site http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/eugenes/. Seven popular...
Ranking is a fundamental operation in data analysis and decision support, and plays an even more crucial role if the dataset being explored exhibits uncertainty. This has led to m...
Social networking web sites or social networks for short (SNs) have become an important web service with a broad range of applications. In an SN, a user publishes and shares inform...
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...