The rapidly increasing number of XML-related applications indicates a growing need for efficient, dynamic, and native XML support in database management systems (XDBMS). So far, bo...
As technological advances are made in software and hardware, the feasibility of accessing information "any time, anywhere" is becoming a reality. Furthermore, the diversi...
Tools for generating test queries for databases do not explicitly take into account the actual data in the database. As a consequence, such tools cannot guarantee suitable coverag...
This demonstration paper presents a probabilistic XML data merging tool, that represents the outcome of semi-structured document integration as a probabilistic tree. The system is...
In addition to indexes and materialized views, horizontal and vertical partitioning are important aspects of physical design in a relational database system that significantly imp...