Abstract. Data in many industrial application systems are often neither completely structured nor unstructured. Consequently semi-structured data models such as XML have become pop...
Design principles for XML schemas that eliminate redundancies and avoid update anomalies have been studied recently. Several normal forms, generalizing those for relational databa...
As the popularity of XML as a format for data representation grows the need for storing XML data in an effective way grows as well. Recent research has provide us with effective so...
Today, neither transactional provisions, in general, nor concurrency control, in particular, of DBMS-based processing are tailored to the specific needs of large and collaborative...
Abstract. MPEG-7 is a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. A lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions have been set up. Therefore, an efficie...