There are principal differences between the relational model and XML's tree model. This causes problems in all cases where information from these two worlds has to be brought...
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding ...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
In this paper, we deal with the problem of determining the best possible physical implementation of an ETL workflow, given its logical-level description and an appropriate cost mo...
The XML support in relational databases and the SQL/XML language are still relatively new as compared to purely relational databases and traditional SQL. Today, most database user...
The aim of this paper is to show a method that is able to detect a particular class of semantic inconsistencies in a rule-based system (RBS). A semantic inconsistency is defined by...