In this chapter we argue that hyperdocuments administered by digital libraries have to be structured according to standardized storage and exchange formats in order to allow for t...
Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...
Previous researchers have proposed generalizations of Horn clause logic to support negation and nondeterminism as two separate extensions. In this paper, we show that the stable m...
The problem of efficiently evaluating XPath and XQuery queries has become increasingly significant since more and more XML data is stored in its native form. We propose a novel op...
Observing that current Global Similarity Measures (GSM) which average the effect of few significant differences on all dimensions may cause possible performance limitation, we prop...
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Dawei Song, Xue Li, Stefa...