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...
The quality of data is a key factor that determines the performance of information systems, in particular with regard (1) to the amount of exceptions in the execution of business p...
Sensor networks are becoming an important part of the IT landscape. Existing systems, however, are limited in two fundamental ways: lack of data independence, and poor integration...
Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most notably scientists), who could employ DBMS technology to process and share their data more effectively. Still, this ...
Web services are becoming prevalent nowadays. Finding desired Web services is becoming an emergent and challenging research problem. In this paper, we present WSExpress (Web Servi...