Databases are a key technology for molecular biology which is a very data intensive discipline. Since molecular biological databases are rather heterogeneous, unification and data...
Automated recommendation (e.g., personalized product recommendation on an ecommerce web site) is an increasingly valuable service associated with many databases--typically online ...
This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two group...
Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, A...
We investigate how to organize a large collection of geotagged photos, working with a dataset of about 35 million images collected from Flickr. Our approach combines content analy...
David J. Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Hutte...
Many of the problems with native XML databases relate to query performance and subsequently, it can be difficult to convince traditional database users of the benefits of using se...
Martin F. O'Connor, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantre...