A topic that is currently inspiring a lot of research is parallel (distributed) computation of transitive closure queries. In [lo] the disconnection set approach has been introduc...
Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Peter M. G. Apers, Gideon L...
XML documents represent a middle range between unstructured data such as textual documents and fully structured data encoded in databases. Typically, information retrieval techniq...
Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Siv...
Redundancy and minimization of queries are investigated in a well known fragment of XPath that includes child and descendant edges, branches, wildcards, and multiple output nodes....
The extension of the XSL (eXtensible Style sheet Language) by variables and passing of data values between template rules has generated a powerful XML query language: XSLT (eXtens...
A challenging question is how XML can be used to support distributed databases. This leads to the problem of how to obtain a suitable, cost-efficient distribution design for XML do...