Semistructured data is not strictly typed like relational or object-oriented data and may be irregular or incomplete. It often arises in practice, e.g., when heterogeneous data so...
Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasili...
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....
A model capturing the data manipulation capabilities of a large class of methods in ohjectoriented databases is proposed and investsigated. The model uses a deterministic, paralle...
In probabilistic reasoning, the problems of existence and identity are important to many different queries; for example, the probability that something that fits some description...
We present a novel framework for indexing and searching schema-less XML documents based on concise summaries of their structural and textual content. Our search query language is X...