In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
B-tree and index into two layers of abstraction. In addition, this paper provides algorithms for (i) concurrency control and recovery including locking of individual keys and of co...
Today, there is an increasing demand to share data with complex data types (e.g., multi-dimensional) over large numbers of data sources. One of the key challenges is sharing these ...
In this paper, we propose granularity as a new index to characterize the nonspecificity of a summative kernel. This index is intended to reflect the behavior of a kernel in the us...
Information filtering has become a key technology for modern information systems. The goal of an information filter is to route messages to the right recipients (possibly none) ac...
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Peter M. Fischer, Donald Koss...