Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
When a client submits a set of XPath queries to a XML database on a network, the set of answer sets sent back by the database may include redundancy in two ways: some elements may...
The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
XML and other semi-structured data may have partially specified or missing schema information, motivating the use of a structural summary which can be automatically computed from ...
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The ability to manage metadata is a critical requirement of the grid, but scientists have not been given the tools needed to catalog experimental data based complex metadata attri...
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