As application semantics becomes more complex and dynamic in IT systems, it is necessary to engineer the application semantics in its own lifecycle of development parallel to syste...
A fundamental problem in XML query processing is tree pattern query (TPQ) matching which computes all data instances in an XML database that match an input TPQ. There is a lot of r...
Streaming XML documents has many emerging applications. However, in this paper, we show that the restrictions imposed by data streaming are too restrictive for processing twig quer...
Although spatio-temporal databases have received considerable attention recently, there has been little work on processing range sum queries on the historical records of moving ob...
Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...