This paper proposes several vectorial operators for processing XML twig queries, which are easy to be performed and inherently efficient for both Ancestor-Descendant (A-D) and Par...
—Over the past few years, XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) has emerged as the standard for information representation and data exchange over the Internet. This paper provides a ...
Annotated speech corpora are databases consisting of signal data along with time-aligned symbolic ‘transcriptions’. Such databases are typically multidimensional, heterogeneou...
As social networks are becoming ubiquitous on the Web, the Semantic Web goals indicate that it is critical to have a standard model allowing exchange, interoperability, transformat...
We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...