XML is becoming a prevalent format for data exchange. Many XML documents have complex schemas that are not always known, and can vary widely between information sources and applica...
Eugene Agichtein, C. T. Howard Ho, Vanja Josifovsk...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
Similarity joins in databases can be used for several important tasks such as data cleaning and instance-based data integration. In this paper, we explore ways how to support such ...
This paper studies five strategies for storing XML documents including one that leaves documents in the file system, three that use a relational database system, and one that uses...
Feng Tian, David J. DeWitt, Jianjun Chen, Chun Zha...