The presence of XML in many recent hypermedia management tools and methods (W3I3, SMIL, etc.) shows better than ever that both structural and textual criteria will continue to pla...
Jacques Le Maitre, Yves Marcoux, Elisabeth Murisas...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Because of practical limits in characterizing the safety profiles of therapeutic products prior to marketing, manufacturers and regulatory agencies perform post-marketing surveill...
David M. Fram, June S. Almenoff, William DuMouchel
Whereas traditional databases manage only deterministic information, many applications that use databases involve uncertain data. This paper presents a Probabilistic Tree Data Bas...
XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management of distributed information, somewhat in the same way that HTML, Web browsers and search engines modified human acce...