In the proposed data model for XML databases, an XML element is directly represented as a ground (variable-free) XML expression—a generalization of an XML element by incorporatio...
Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, Chutiporn Anutariya...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
The database community is on a constant quest for better integration of data management and knowledge management. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in various applicat...
XML stream processing has recently become popular for many applications such as selective dissemination of information. Several approaches have been proposed and most of them are ...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...