The availability of summary data for XML documents has many applications, from providing users with quick feedback about their queries, to cost-based storage design and query opti...
Juliana Freire, Jayant R. Haritsa, Maya Ramanath, ...
Physical structures, for example indexes and materialized views, can improve query execution performance by orders of magnitude. Hence, it is important to choose the right configu...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
We tackle the difficult problem of summarizing the path/branching structure and value content of an XML database that comprises both numeric and textual values. We introduce a nov...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...