The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
XQuery is a powerful language defined by the W3C to query XML documents. Its query functionalities and its expressiveness satisfy the major needs of both the database community an...
Nicolas Travers, Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc, Tianxiao Li...
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...
Applications have an increasing need to manage semistructured data such as data encoded in XML along with conventional structured data. We extend the structured object database ...
Tirthankar Lahiri, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer Widom