Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
File I/O data is interpreted by high performance parallel/distributed applications mostly as a sequence of arbitrary bits. This leads to the situation where data is ’volatile’...
Recent research has made it possible to build information agents that retrieve and integrate information from the World Wide Web. Although there now exist solutions for modeling W...
Greg Barish, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. Knoblock, Stev...
The extension of Regular Expressions (REs) with an interleaving (shuffle) operator has been proposed in many occasions, since it would be crucial to deal with unordered data. Howe...
This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to "speak&...