XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a textual markup language designed for the creation of self-describing documents. Such documents contain textual data combined with structural ...
XML is becoming the standard representation format for metadata. Metadata for multimedia documents, as for instance MPEG-7, require approximate match search functionalities to be s...
Keyword search is a proven, user-friendly way to query HTML documents in the World Wide Web. We propose keyword search in XML documents, modeled as labeled trees, and describe cor...
The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...
The correct and ecient management of data in distributed databases or mobile computing environments is dicult. Communication disruptions within such systems render the execution o...
Paul A. Jensen, Monica Brockmeyer, Nandit Soparkar