Experience with relational systems has shown that distribution is an effective way of improving the scalability of query evaluation. In this paper, we show how distributed query e...
Abstract. We describe the construction of a generic natural language query interface to an XML database. Our interface can accept an arbitrary English sentence as a query, which ca...
We present HePToX, a full-fledged peer-topeer database system that efficiently handles XML data heterogeneity. In a highly dynamic P2P network, it is unrealistic for a peer enter...
Global semantic integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple databases. In this paper, we take the initial steps towards representing global se...
Abstract: As the evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database management systems is a complex task and offers several degrees of freedom, we propose a visual explanation...