Abstract. Although XML is the dominant standard for publishing and exchanging data for Internet-based business applications, data is typically stored in relational or object-relati...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Abstract This paper describes the overall design and architecture of the Timber XML database system currently being implemented at the University of Michigan. The system is based u...
H. V. Jagadish, Shurug Al-Khalifa, Adriane Chapman...
In recent years it has been argued that when XML encodings become complex, DOM trees are no longer adequate for query processing. Alternative representations of XML documents, suc...
The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...