With the advent of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange on the Internet, storing and querying XML data becomes more and more important. Several XML query languag...
Bulk loading refers to the process of creating an index from scratch for a given data set. This problem is well understood for B-trees, but so far, non-traditional index structure...
We illustrate basic features of the Lixto wrapper generator such as the user and system interaction, the capacious visual interface, the marking and selecting procedures, and the ...
We present new techniques for supervised wrapper generation and automated web information extraction, and a system called Lixto implementing these techniques. Our system can gener...
Relational database systems have traditionally optimzed for I/O performance and organized records sequentially on disk pages using the N-ary Storage Model (NSM) (a.k.a., slotted p...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...
This paper presents several paradigms by which users of Verity business portals (from within as well as from outside an enterprise) discover and navigate relevant semistructured d...
Mani Abrol, Neil Latarche, Uma Mahadevan, Jianchan...
Much of the data that we encounter has a spatial (geographic locational) aspect yet this has not been readily exploited by traditional RDBMS. Over the past five years there has be...