The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
To support secure exchanging and sharing of XML data over the Internet, a myriad of XML access control mechanisms have been proposed. In the setting of node-level fine-grained acc...
Enterprise-level applications are becoming complex with the need for event and stream processing, multiple query processing and data analysis over heterogeneous data sources such ...
The problem of efficiently evaluating XPath and XQuery queries has become increasingly significant since more and more XML data is stored in its native form. We propose a novel op...