Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...
Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
Most of the work on coordination technology so far has focused on the development of special coordination languages and environments that provide the basic mechanisms for realizin...
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
For the last many years, workflow management (WFM) has been the focus of intense activity in terms of products, standards and research work worldwide. WFM integrates concepts from ...