Searching for all occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML document is an important operation in XML query processing. Recently a holistic method TwigStack [2] has been proposed. T...
The problem of estimating progress for long-running queries has recently been introduced. We analyze the characteristics of the progress estimation problem, from the perspective o...
In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
XML documents are normally stored as plain text files. Hence, the natural and most convenient way to update XML documents is to simply edit the text files. But efficient query eva...
Barbara Catania, Wen Qiang Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Xi...
In recent years there has been considerable research on automated selection of physical design in database systems. In current solutions, candidate access paths are heuristically ...
We present a method to evaluate path queries based on the novel concept of partial path instances. Our method (1) maximizes performance by means of sequential scans or asynchronou...
Significant efforts are currently invested in application integration to enable the interaction and composition of business processes of different companies, yielding complex, mul...
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, R...