Providing an efficient way to support XML query processing has become a very important issue. A system called XQP (XQuery Processor) is proposed in this paper to meet the need. X...
In recent years, data provenance or lineage tracing which refers to the process of tracing the sources of data, data movement between databases, and annotations written for data ha...
Research in temporal databases has mainly focused on defining temporal data models by extending existing models, and developing access structures for temporal data. Little has bee...
Physical design for object-oriented databases is still in its infancy. Implementation decisions often intrude into the conceptual design (such as inverse links and object decompos...
Despite various interoperability recommendations, heterogeneity of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still an issue. This led to an increasing need for a data integration sy...