We outline an efficient ACID-compliant mechanism for structural inserts and deletes in relational XML document storage that uses a region based pre/size/level encoding (equivalent...
In this paper we describe Racer, which can be considered as a core inference engine for the semantic web. The Racer inference server offers two APIs that are already used by at le...
The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
Most software applications use a relational database for data management and storage. Interaction with such a database is often done by letting the program construct strings with ...
As meta-data become of ever more importance to the Web, we will need to start managing such meta-data. We argue that there is a strong need for meta-data validation and aggregation...