Providing efficient access to XML documents becomes crucial in XML database systems. More and more concurrency control protocols for XML database systems were proposed in the past...
Most database systems (DBMSs) today are operating on servers equipped with magnetic disks. In our contribution, we want to motivate the use of two emerging and striking technologi...
We argue that a roadmap for software engineering and the Internet currently should be based on standards for complex data and document structures, like the Extensible Markup Langu...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Web is the boundless source of information and no one is able to process the vast amount of new documents published on the web every day, even with filtering out the documents the ...