One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
System and software development has become an increasingly complex science. With so many emerging devices, processors, systems specification languages, software implementation lan...
The IPSI XQuery Demonstrator (IPSI-XQ) implements the XQuery surface syntax, its mapping to the XQuery Core Language, and the static and dynamic semantics of XQuery Core "by t...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...