Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...
The problem of knowledge representation has been extensively addressedin the information systemsfield and there has been a wide range of suggestionsfor capturing semantics.A numbe...
The National Cancer Institute has collected a large database of digitized 35mm slides of the uterine cervix, the idea being to build a system enabling to study the evolution of le...
We introduce the problem of cluster-grouping and show that it integrates several important data mining tasks, i.e. subgroup discovery, mining correlated patterns and aspects from c...
Abstract. Certain types of database-backed web sites heavily utilize userdefined functions in SQL queries. Unfortunately, existing web proxy caching schemes can not handle these fu...