We study the design issues of data-centric XML documents where (1) there are no mixed contents, i.e., each element may have some subelements and attributes, or it may have a singl...
The number of potentially-related data resources available for querying -- databases, data warehouses, virtual integrated schemas -continues to grow rapidly. Perhaps no area has s...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Muhammad Salm...
The objective of entity identification is to determine the correspondence between object instances from more than one database. This paper ezamines the problem at the instance lev...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...