XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
A common problem within most large corporations nowadays is the diversity of database systems that are employed by their many departments in the development of a product. Usually, ...
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Ulrich Hermsen, Geor...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
Semantic models have shown the utility of arbitrary user-de ned relationships for de ning the semantics of database information, while objectoriented models have developed a stron...
The need for Keyword search in databases is suggested both by Web integration with legacy database management system and by dynamic Web publication. However, it sacrifices the inh...