The main barriers to the level of electronic data interchange required to seamlessly integrate services offered by legacy systems in an Internet environment are the need for appli...
G. M. Bryan, Joanne M. Curry, Carolyn McGregor, D....
The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
Background: Due to the complex and distributed nature of biological research, our current biological knowledge is spread over many redundant annotation databases maintained by man...
Brad T. Sherman, Da Wei Huang, Qina Tan, Yongjian ...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Originally XML was used as a standard protocol for data exchange in computing. The evolution of information technology has opened up new situations in which XML can be used to aut...