: Relational database systems are highly efficient hosts to table-shaped data. It is all the more interesting to see how a careful inspection of both, the XML tree structure as wel...
Building the semantic web encounters problems similar to building large bibliographic systems. The experience of librarianship in controlling large, heterogeneous collections of b...
abstraction rules that hide the complexity of systems of components. We've begun this process in the domain of sensor/actuator network applications, observing that in manyappl...
XML query languages typically allow the specification of structural patterns of elements. Finding the occurrences of such patterns in an XML tree is the key operation in XML quer...
Many parallel applications from scientific computing use MPI global communication operations to collect or distribute data. Since the execution times of these communication opera...