: Whenever transformation of data is used to bridge the gap of different data formats, and a query is given in the destination format, query reformulation can speed up the transfor...
Abstract. Motivated by considerations in XML theory and model checking, data strings have been introduced as an extension of finite alphabet strings which carry, at each position,...
This paper proposes a novel approach to measuring XML document similarity by taking into account the semantics between XML elements. The motivation of the proposed approach is to ...
In order to find all occurrences of a tree/twig pattern in an XML database, a number of holistic twig join algorithms have been proposed. However, most of these algorithms focus o...
In focused XML retrieval, information retrieval systems have to find out which are the most appropriate retrieval units and return only these to the user, avoiding overlapping elem...