XML is becoming the standard representation format for metadata. Metadata for multimedia documents, as for instance MPEG-7, require approximate match search functionalities to be s...
Abstract. Many researchers have investigated the problem of storing and querying XML documents using an RDBMS. Two situations are considered in this approach based on whether or no...
: Object-oriented technology has become mature enough to satisfy many new requirements coming from areas like computer-aided design (CAD), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), ...
We argue for a new aggregate function we termed the LIST function. It aggregates a set of values of one or more attributes into a single value that is internally a list of these v...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...