XML schema design has two opposing goals: elimination of update anomalies requires that the schema be as normalized as possible; yet higher query performance and simpler query exp...
Nuwee Wiwatwattana, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lak...
A multimedia server needs to satisfy the temporal ordering of multimedia data streams when servicing a client. Multimedia data has high bandwidth requirements, and within a networ...
Enterprise-level applications are becoming complex with the need for event and stream processing, multiple query processing and data analysis over heterogeneous data sources such ...
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...
: 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...