In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
Ontologies proliferate with the growth of the Semantic Web. However, most of data on the Web are still stored in relational databases. Therefore, it is important to establish inter...
Abstract. It has been already verified that hardware-supported finegrain synchronization provides a significant performance improvement over coarse-grained synchronization mecha...
Vladimir Vlassov, Oscar Sierra Merino, Csaba Andra...
There has been a great deal of work in recent years on processing and optimizing queries against XML data. Typically in these previous works, schema information is not considered,...
Stelios Paparizos, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadis...
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...