The emergence of database languages with side effects, notably for XML, raises significant challenges for database compilers and optimizers. In this paper, we extend an algebra fo...
In [3], we introduced a framework for querying and updating probabilistic information over unordered labeled trees, the probabilistic tree model. The data model is based on trees ...
XML schema design has two opposing goals: elimination of update anomalies requires that the schema be as normalized as possible; yet higher query performance and simpler query exp...
Nuwee Wiwatwattana, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lak...
This paper focuses on an aspect that is widely neglected in native XML database management systems: support for concurrent transactional access. We analyze the isolation requireme...
XPathLog is a logic-based language for manipulating and integrating XML data. It extends the XPath query language with Prolog-style variables. Due to the close relationship with X...