In authorization-transparent access control, users formulate their queries against the database schema rather than against authorization views that transform and hide data. The Tru...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
Structural summaries are data structures that preserve all structural features of XML documents in a compact form. We investigate the applicability of the most popular summaries a...
Abstract. While XQuery is becoming a standard, the W3C is currently discussing the features of an update language for XML, and its requirements. Therefore, time is ripe for designi...
Several native approaches to storing large XML data sets exist. In all of these approaches the internal data representation is designed to support any ad-hoc XQuery query. In this...