We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
In this paper, three techniques to implement logical OIDs are thoroughly evaluated: hashing, B-trees and a technique called direct mapping. Among these three techniques, direct ma...
We describe the use of a flexible meta-interpreter for performing access control checks on deductive databases. The meta-program is implemented in Prolog and takes as input a datab...
Motivated by the increasing need to handle complex multidimensional data in location-based data warehouses, this paper proposes a powerful data model that is able to capture the c...
The AquaLogic Data Services Platform (ALDSP) is a BEA middleware platform for creating services that access and manipulate information drawn from multiple heterogeneous sources of ...
Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Daniel Engova...