XQuery is a declarative language for querying and updating XML data sources. Interfacing XQuery to a host programming language is difficult because of the type system mismatch, an...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Michael J. Carey, Daniela Fl...
A key step in the optimization of declarative queries over XML data is estimating the selectivity of path expressions, i.e., the number of elements reached by a specific navigatio...
Natasha Drukh, Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofal...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...
Mash-ups extract data fragments from disparate sources, and combine and transform the extracted fragments for display. Currently, mash-up developers tend to employ ad hoc represen...
Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois M. L. Delcambr...
Instrumenting programs with code to monitor runtime behavior is a common technique for profiling and debugging. In practice, instrumentation is either inserted manually by progra...
Simon Goldsmith, Robert O'Callahan, Alexander Aike...