As the use of XML is rapidly growing, a growing number of users without programming skills will need to query XML data. Although designed to be easily understood by humans, XQuery...
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
A framework for describing semantic relationships among nodes in XML documents is presented. In contrast to earlier work, the XML documents may have ID references (i.e., they corr...
Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Benny Kimelfeld, Yehoshua...
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...