Performance tuning in modern database systems requires a lot of expertise, is very time consuming and often misdirected. Tuning attempts often lack a methodology that has a holist...
Research in modeling and querying spatial data has primarily focused on traditional "crisp" spatial objects with exact location and spatial extent. More recent work, how...
XQuery is a powerful and convenient language that is designed for querying the data in XML documents. In this paper, we address how to optimally query encrypted XML documents usin...
Abstract. We have defined an XML structural index called the Structure Index Tree (SIT), which eliminates duplicate structures arising from the equivalent subtrees in an XML docume...
This proposal explores the promotion of existing relational databases to Semantic Web Endpoints. It presents the benefits of ontologybased read and write access to existing relati...