Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
Recently, there has been much research into the specification of dynamic labeling schemes supporting XML updates. The primary design goal of any dynamic labeling scheme is to limi...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
We have previously described a hybrid keyword search that combines metadata search with a traditional keyword search over unstructured context data. This hybrid search paradigm pro...
The ability to compute top-k matches to XML queries is gaining importance due to the increasing number of large XML repositories. The efficiency of top-k query evaluation relies o...