In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
There is much effort to develop comprehensive support for the storage and querying of XML data in database management systems. The major developers have extended their systems to h...
Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Andrzej Hoppe, Wenbin M...
— Accurate query performance prediction (QPP) is central to effective resource management, query optimization and query scheduling. Analytical cost models, used in current genera...
A business application automates a collection of business processes. A business process describes how a set of logically related tasks are executed, ordered and managed by followi...