Abstract Current, data-driven applications have become more dynamic in nature, with the need to respond to events generated from distributed sources or to react to information extr...
In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Abstract. Retrieving semistructured (XML) data typically requires either a structured query such as XPath, or a keyword query that does not take structure into account. In this pap...
The Ambient Logic is a modal logic proposed to describe the structural and computational properties of distributed and mobile computations. The static part of the Ambient Logic is,...
The modern XML query language called XQuery includes advanced facilities both to query and to transform XML data. An XQuery query optimizer should be able to optimize any query. F...