XQuery is considered to become the standard query language for XML documents. However, the complete XQuery syntax and semantics seem too complicated for research and educational p...
Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jan Paredaens, Roe...
Despite the intense interest towards realizing the Semantic Web vision, most existing RDF data management schemes are constrained in terms of efficiency and scalability. Still, th...
Cathrin Weiss, Panagiotis Karras, Abraham Bernstei...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
Structured data including sets, sequences, trees and graphs, pose significant challenges to fundamental aspects of data management such as efficient storage, indexing, and simila...
Xiaohong Wang, Aaron M. Smalter, Jun Huan, Gerald ...
It is common practice in audiovisual archives to disclose documents using metadata from a structured vocabulary or thesaurus. Many of these thesauri have limited or no structure. T...