As the XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to expl...
Many real-world data are maintained in relational format, with different tables storing information about entities and their links or relationships. The structure (schema) of the ...
Oliver Schulte, Hassan Khosravi, Flavia Moser, Mar...
In this article we define a new type of integrity constraint in XML, called an XML inclusion constraint (XIND), and show that it extends the semantics of a relational inclusion de...
Michael Karlinger, Millist W. Vincent, Michael Sch...
In an increasingly multilingual world, it is critical that information management tools organically support the simultaneous use of multiple natural languages. A pre-requisite for ...
A relation is an unordered collection of records. Often, however, there is an underlying order (e.g., a sequence of stock prices), and users want to pose queries that reflect this...