XML has already become the de facto standard for specifying and exchanging data on the Web. However, XML is by nature verbose and thus XML documents are usually large in size, a fa...
Wilfred Ng, Wai Yeung Lam, Peter T. Wood, Mark Lev...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
A large fraction of an XML document typically consists of text data. The XPath query language allows text search via the equal, contains, and starts-with predicates. Such predicate...
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisco Claude, Sebastian Manet...
Structural indices play a significant role in improving the efficiency of XML query evaluation. Being able to compare various structural indexing techniques is critical for a DBM...
Yuqing Wu, Sofia Brenes, Tejas Totade, Shijin Josh...
Graph-structured databases and related problems such as reachability query processing have been increasingly relevant to many applications such as XML databases, biological databas...