XML and other semi-structured data may have partially specified or missing schema information, motivating the use of a structural summary which can be automatically computed from ...
Raghav Kaushik, Pradeep Shenoy, Philip Bohannon, E...
This paper presents a novel strategy for temporal coalescing. Temporal coalescing merges the temporal extents of value-equivalent tuples. A temporal extent is usually coalesced of...
Indexing schemes for semistructured data have been developed in recent years to optimize path query processing by summarizing path information. However, most of these schemes can ...
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
An increasing number of business users and software applications need to process information that is accessible via multiple diverse information systems, such as database systems,...