We introduce and study a new class of queries that we refer to as ACMA (arithmetic constraints on multiple attributes) queries. Such combinatorial queries require the simultaneous...
Laboratory information systems (LIMS) are used in life science research to manage complex experiments. Since LIMS systems are often shared by different research groups, powerful a...
Traditional approaches to query processing aim at rewriting a given query into another more efficient one that uses less time and/or resources during the execution. There by, the...
In this paper, we address the problem of incrementally maintaining a histogram in response to a non-stationary update process. In relational database systems, this problem can occ...
— XPath is a common language for selecting nodes in an XML document. XPath uses so called path expressions which describe a navigation path through semistructured data. In the la...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
We present external-memory algorithms for differencing large hierarchical datasets. Our methods are especially suited to streaming data with bounded differences. For input sizes m...
The modern XML query language called XQuery includes advanced facilities both to query and to transform XML data. An XQuery query optimizer should be able to optimize any query. F...
While traditional fixed-wired network protocols like 2Phase-Commit guarantee atomicity, we cannot use them in mobile low bandwidth networks where network partitioning, node failu...
The recent proliferation of XML-based standards and technologies for managing data on the Web demonstrates the need for effective and efficient management of treestructured data....