Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents a critical requirement for many applications. Also, there has been much recent interest in supporting complex queries on XML ...
Shu-Yao Chien, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Carlo Zaniolo,...
Although data stored in XML is of increasing importance, most existing data repositories are still managed by relational database systems. In light of this, recent XML database re...
William M. Shui, Franky Lam, Damien K. Fisher, Ray...
Query containment is the most fundamental relationship between a pair of database queries: a query Q is said to be contained in a query Q if the answer for Q is always a subset of...
XML is fast becoming the standard for information exchange on the Internet. As such, information expressed in XML will need to be integrated with existing information systems, whi...