Schema matching is a fundamental issue to many database applications, such as query mediation and data warehousing. It becomes a challenge when different vocabularies are used to r...
We consider a fragment of XPath named `forward-XPath', which contains all descendant and rightwards sibling axes as well as data equality and inequality tests. The satisfiabi...
Global e-Commerce and mass-outreach e-Governance programs have brought into sharp focus the need for database systems to store and manipulate text data efficiently in a suite of ...
We present the Private Digital Library (PDL) project that represents a service of the Corporate Digital Library (CDL) prototype. The main ideas underlying this project are the foll...
Giovanni Semeraro, Fabio Abbattista, Nicola Fanizz...
Emerging database application domains demand not only new functionality but also high performance. To satisfy these two requirements, the Volcano project provides efficient, exten...