High-quality annotation of biological data is central to bioinformatics. Annotation using terms from ontologies provides reliable computational access to data. The Gene Ontology (...
Michael Bada, Daniele Turi, Robin McEntire, Robert...
We present a formal framework for capturing the provenance of data appearing in XQuery views of XML. Building on previous work on relations and their (positive) query languages, w...
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
A location-based service (LBS) provides information based on the location information specified in a query. Nearest-neighbor (NN) search is an important class of queries supported ...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Abstract. Many different index structures have been proposed for spatial databases to support efficient query processing. However, most of these index structures suffer from an exp...