Sharing huge, massively distributed databases in P2P systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer suffi...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
A purely relational account of the true XQuery semantics can turn any relational database system into an XQuery processor. Compiling nested expressions of the fully compositional X...
We consider the fundamental operation of applying a conjunction of selection conditions to a set of records. With large main memories available cheaply, systems may choose to keep...
User feedback has proven very successful to query large multimedia databases. Due to the nature of the data representation and the mismatch between mathematical models and human p...
Traditional optimizers fail to pick good execution plans, when faced with increasingly complex queries and large data sets. This failure is even more acute in the context of XQuery...
Riham Abdel Kader, Maurice van Keulen, Peter A. Bo...