Data access applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) suffer from intermittent network connections and restricted power supplies. While most of the researches focus on Media...
The recent proliferation of XML-based standards and technologies for managing data on the Web demonstrates the need for effective and efficient management of treestructured data....
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...
Many decentralized and peer-to-peer applications require some sort of data management. Besides P2P file-sharing, there are already scenarios (e.g. BRICKS project [3]) that need m...
Advanced e-services require efficient, flexible, and easy-to-use workflow technology that integrates well with mainstream Internet technologies like XML and Web servers. This pape...