This paper focuses on an aspect that is widely neglected in native XML database management systems: support for concurrent transactional access. We analyze the isolation requireme...
—Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions”, the histories of their users’ search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engin...
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessing...
Tools for generating test queries for databases do not explicitly take into account the actual data in the database. As a consequence, such tools cannot guarantee suitable coverag...
Networks of sensors are used in many different fields, from industrial applications to surveillance applications. A common feature of these applications is the necessity of a mo...