Numerous researchers have proposed to use relational databases to store and query XML documents. In these systems, the elements selected by an XML query are returned to an applica...
Artem Chebotko, Mustafa Atay, Shiyong Lu, Farshad ...
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of nontextual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential for...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Optimizing nested queries is an intricate problem. It becomes even harder if in a nested query the linking predicate or the correlation predicate occurs disjunctively. We present ...
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...