Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka "null values") is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through media...
Hemal Khatri, Jianchun Fan, Yi Chen, Subbarao Kamb...
XML queries are usually expressed by means of XPath expressions identifying portions of the selected documents. An XPath expression defines a way of navigating an XML tree and ret...
An interesting issue in moving objects databases is to find similar trajectories of moving objects. Previous work on this topic focuses on movement patterns (trajectories with tim...
Clusters are now composed of non-uniform nodes with different CPUs, disks or network cards so that customers can adapt the cluster configuration to the changing technologies and t...
Tobias Mayr, Philippe Bonnet, Johannes Gehrke, Pra...
If XML is to play the critical role of the lingua franca for Internet data interchange that many predict, it is necessary to start designing and adopting benchmarks allowing the c...