Physical design has always been an important part of database administration. Today’s commercial database management systems offer physical design tools, which recommend a physical design for a given workload. However, these tools work only with static workloads and ignore the fact that workloads, and physical designs, may change over time. Research has now begun to focus on dynamic physical de...

We present MedstractPlus, a resource for mining relations from the Medline bibliographic database. It was built on the remains of Medstract, a previously created resource that included a bio-relation server and an acronym database. MedstractPlus uses simple and scalable natural language processing modules to structure text and is designed with reusability and extendibility in mind.

Modern RDBMSs support the ability to compress data using methods such as null suppression and dictionary encoding. Data compression offers the promise of significantly reducing storage requirements and improving I/O performance for decision support queries. However, compression can also slow down update and query performance due to the CPU costs of compression and decompression. In this paper, ...

This paper describes the vision system for a humanoid robot, which includes the mechanism that controls eyeball orientation and blinking process. Along with the mechanism designed, the orientation of the camera, integrated with controlling servomotors. This vision system is a bio-mimic, which is  designed to match the size of human eye. This prototype runs face recognition and identifies, match...

Over the years the identification of one gene or protein has been substituted by the determination, in a single experiment, of all the genes or proteins expressed in a given cellular state. Consequently, the amount of available data has increased considerably. In this scenario, bioinformatics has become the bridge between experimental data and computational tasks for managing, mining and retrie...