Holistic twig join algorithms represent the state of the art for evaluating path expressions in XML queries. Using inverted indexes on XML elements, holistic twig joins move a set...
Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski, Eugene J. Sheki...
XML and XQuery semantics are very sensitive to the order of the produced output. Although pattern-tree based algebraic approaches are becoming more and more popular for evaluating...
We designed and implemented a digital library system that supports content-based retrieval of multimedia objects based on MPEG-7 and XQuery. MPEG-7, a metadata standard for multim...
Transaction time is the time of a database transaction, i.e., an insertion, update, or deletion. A transactiontime database stores the transaction-time history of a database and s...
We present an algorithm to solve XPath decision problems under regular tree type constraints and show its use to statically typecheck XPath queries. To this end, we prove the deci...