XML is the data interoperability standard in many application domains. Therefore, an increasing number of researchers and professionals, who are not computer scientists (although ...
This paper extends relational processing and optimization to the FISQL/FIRA languages for dynamic schema queries over multidatabases. Dynamic schema queries involve the creation a...
Modern database systems provide not only powerful data models but also complex query languages supporting powerful features such as the ability to create new database objects and ...
From the standpoint of satisfying human's informationneeds, the current digital library (DL) systems suffer from the following two shortcomings: (i) inadequate high-level cog...
Ling Feng, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Jeroen Hoppenbrouw...
In modern databases, complex objects like multimedia data, proteins or text objects can be modeled in a variety of representations and can be decomposed into multiple instances of ...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Sc...