In many application areas, for example in design or media production processes, several authors have to work cooperatively on the same project. Thereby, a frequently used data for...
Integration of XML data is an increasingly important problem and many methods have recently been developed. In this talk, we examine the related and more challenging task of how t...
A lot of research has been conducted by the database community on methods and techniques for efficient XPath processing, with great success. Despite the progress made, significant...
Applications and services that access Web data are becoming increasingly more useful and wide-spread. Current main-stream Web query languages such as XQuery, XSLT, or SPARQL, howe...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...