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...
Based on loosely coupled services in an XML engine, we describe how to realize fine-grained lock protocols, which can guarantee transaction isolation for applications using differ...
Abstract. Automatically choosing suitable native storage structures for XML documents arriving at the XML DBMS is a challenging task for its storage manager. While some of the crit...