Relational XQuery systems try to re-use mature relational data management infrastructures to create fast and scalable XML database technology. This paper describes the main featur...
Peter A. Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen,...
Query optimization is an inherently complex problem, and validating the correctness and effectiveness of a query optimizer can be a task of comparable complexity. The overall proc...
As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
Probabilistic processes appear naturally in various contexts, with applications to Business Processes, XML data management and more. Many models for specifying and querying such p...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...