The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...
For documents with complex or atypical annotations, multihierarchical structures play the role of the document tree in traditional XML documents. We define a model of overlapping...
Abstract. Algorithms for processing Structural Joins embody essential building blocks for XML query evaluation. Their design is a difficult task, because they have to satisfy many ...
The MIX mediator systems incorporates a novel framework for navigation-driven evaluation of virtual mediated views. Its architecture allows the on-demand computation of views and q...
Overlapping markup refers to the issue of how to represent data structures more expressive than trees--for example direct acyclic graphs--using markup (meta-)languages which have ...