Peer-to-peer systems offer an efficient means for sharing data among autonomous nodes. A central issue is locating the nodes with data matching a user query. A decentralized solut...
Many of the problems with native XML databases relate to query performance and subsequently, it can be difficult to convince traditional database users of the benefits of using se...
Martin F. O'Connor, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantre...
In this paper, we propose a versatile disambiguation approach which can be used to make explicit the meaning of structure based information such as XML schemas, XML document struc...
Queries navigate semistructured data via path expressions, and can be accelerated using an index. Our solution encodes paths as strings, and inserts those strings into a special i...
Brian F. Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael J. Franklin,...
Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available ...