Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
We introduce an image retrieval method for searchingan image database by using a query image that has similarity in its global and/or regional image contents to the intended targe...
Cloud enabled systems have become a crucial component to efficiently process and analyze massive amounts of data. One of the key data processing and analysis operations is the Sim...
Due to the ubiquity and popularity of XML, users often are in the following situation: they want to query XML documents which contain potentially interesting information but they ...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Martin L. Kersten, Menzo Wi...