Over a traditional Database Management System (DBMS), the answer to an aggregate query is usually much smaller than the answer to a similar nonaggregate query. Therefore, we call ...
The main barriers to the level of electronic data interchange required to seamlessly integrate services offered by legacy systems in an Internet environment are the need for appli...
G. M. Bryan, Joanne M. Curry, Carolyn McGregor, D....
Abstract. XML provides a natural mechanism for representing semistructured and unstructured data. It becomes the basis for encoding a large variety of information, for example, the...
Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information r...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find, in advance, a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such ...