In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Abstract. We present a simple query language for XML, which supports hierarchical, Boolean-connected query patterns. The interpretation of a query is founded on cost-based query tr...
We report on experience that we made in the Trading room InteGRation Architecture project (TIGRA) at a large German bank. TIGRA developed a distributed system architecture for int...
Electronic B2B marketplaces bring together many online suppliers and buyers, each of which can potentially use his own format to represent the products in his product catalog. The ...
Abstract. This paper describes CAP7, a system for searching and browsing in distributed document (metadata) collections. The system architecture is similar to Harvest, comprising g...