RFID technology provides significant advantages over traditional object-tracking technology and is increasingly adopted and deployed in real applications. RFID applications genera...
Yijian Bai, Fusheng Wang, Peiya Liu, Carlo Zaniolo...
XQuery is a powerful language defined by the W3C to query XML documents. Its query functionalities and its expressiveness satisfy the major needs of both the database community an...
Nicolas Travers, Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc, Tianxiao Li...
Abstract. We present a model for complex documents possibly consisting of a hierarchically structured set of images or texts. Documents are represented both at the form level (as s...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
Integrity constraints are an essential part of a modern schema definition language. They are useful for semantic specification, update consistency control, query optimization, inf...
Faceted classification allows one to model applications with complex classification hierarchies using orthogonal dimensions. Recent work has examined the use of faceted classi...