The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
The nature of semistructured data in web collections is evolving. Increasingly, XML web documents (or documents exchanged via web services) are valid with regard to a schema, yet ...
Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo, Alejandro A. V...
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
As XML database sizes grow, the amount of space used for storing the data and auxiliary data structures becomes a major factor in query and update performance. This paper presents...