Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
Testing a database engine has been and continues to be a challenging task. The space of possible SQL queries along with their possible access paths is practically unbounded. Moreo...
Hardik Bati, Leo Giakoumakis, Steve Herbert, Aleks...
We examine the problem of processing temporal joins in the presence of indexing schemes. Previous work on temporal joins has concentrated on non-indexed relations which were fully...
Donghui Zhang, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Bernhard Seege...
Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural...
Steven Bird, Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Haejoong ...
Indoor spaces accommodate large populations of individuals. The continuous range monitoring of such objects can be used as a foundation for a wide variety of applications, e.g., s...