Probabilistic processes appear naturally in various contexts, with applications to Business Processes, XML data management and more. Many models for specifying and querying such p...
Data integration approaches mostly attempt to resolve semantic uncertainty and conflicts between data sources during the data integration process. In some application areas, this...
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...
A natural consequence of the widespread adoption of XML as standard for information representation and exchange is the redundant storage of large amounts of persistent XML documen...
Because XML documents tend to be very large and are more and more collaboratively processed, their fine-grained storage and management is a must for which, in turn, a flexible tree...