XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
XML schema design has two opposing goals: elimination of update anomalies requires that the schema be as normalized as possible; yet higher query performance and simpler query exp...
Nuwee Wiwatwattana, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lak...
Twig queries represent the building blocks of declarative query languages over XML data. A twig query describes a complex traversal of the document graph and generates a set of el...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
Background: Proteins show a great variety of 3D conformations, which can be used to infer their evolutionary relationship and to classify them into more general groups; therefore ...