With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
This paper focuses on an aspect that is widely neglected in native XML database management systems: support for concurrent transactional access. We analyze the isolation requireme...
Development of portable network-aware applications demands an interface to the network that allows an application to obtain information about its execution environment. This paper...
Bruce Lowekamp, Nancy Miller, Dean Sutherland, Tho...
Moving objects (e.g., vehicles in road networks) continuously generate large amounts of spatio-temporal information in the form of data streams. Efficient management of such strea...
We present and analyze an algorithm for equivalent rewriting of XQuery queries using XQuery views, which is complete for a large class of XQueries featuring nested FLWR blocks, XM...