A key step in the optimization of declarative queries over XML data is estimating the selectivity of path expressions, i.e., the number of elements reached by a specific navigatio...
Natasha Drukh, Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofal...
We investigate the expressiveness of existing XML keyword search semantics and propose Meaningful Connected Network (MCN) as a new semantics to capture meaningful relationships of ...
Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng...
In this paper we present HOPI, a new connection index for XML documents based on the concept of the 2?hop cover of a directed graph introduced by Cohen et al. In contrast to most o...
The nature of semistructured data in web collections is evolving. Increasingly, XML web documents (or documents exchanged via web services) are valid with regard to a schema, yet ...
Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo, Alejandro A. V...
The SQL queries produced in XML-to-SQL query translation are often unnecessarily complex, even for simple input XML queries. In this paper we argue that relational systems can do ...