XML and other types of semi-structured data are typically represented by a labeled directed graph. To speed up path expression queries over the graph, a variety of structural inde...
As the popularity of XML as a format for data representation grows the need for storing XML data in an effective way grows as well. Recent research has provide us with effective so...
In data intensive sciences like High Energy Physics, large amounts of data are typically distributed and/or replicated to several sites. Although there exist various ways to store...
In this paper we present a prototype system for the management of earth science data which is novel in that it takes a DBMS centric view of the the task. Our prototype -- called &...
This paper addresses the problem of data integration in a P2P environment, where each peer stores schema of its local data, mappings between the schemas, and some schema constraint...