In this paper we present a novel technique for nearest neighbor searching dubbed neighborhood approximation. The central idea is to divide the database into compact regions repres...
With XQuery becoming the standard language for querying XML, and the relational SQL platform being recognized as an important platform to store and process XML, the SQL/XML standa...
In this paper, we propose a knowledge discovery-based approach to ontology concept design. In our approach, concept design is a stepwise activity which exploits ontology matching ...
Considering the characteristics of biological sequence databases, which typically have a small alphabet, a very long length and a relative small size (several hundreds of sequences...
imizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE Query optimizers are error prone, due to both their nature and the increased search space that modern query processing requ...