Textual patterns have been used effectively to extract information from large text collections. However they rely heavily on textual redundancy in the sense that facts have to be m...
We are interested in specifying functional dependencies (FDs) for data-centric XML documents (XML documents that are used mainly for data storage). FDs are a natural constraint. S...
The paper presents various transparency issues that have to be considered during development of object-oriented Grid applications based on virtual repositories. Higher-level transp...
Krzysztof Kaczmarski, Piotr Habela, Hanna Kozankie...
We introduce Xeek, a method for managing XML documents using relational databases. Most previous proposals in which the XPath axes are evaluated using only the pre- and postorder n...
Vertical partition is an important technique in database design used to enhance performance in database systems. Vertical fragmentation is a combinatorial optimization problem that...