XML Schema supports the specification of occurrence constraints by declaring values for its min/maxOccurs attributes. These constraints are structural in the sense that they rest...
We present a system for efficient indexed querying of XML documents, enhanced with sibling operations. R-tree index proposed in [5] has a very high cost for the following-sibling...
Fuzzy set theory represents a uniform framework for extending the relational database model to han-, dle imprecision of information found in the real world. None of the existing p...
Metric Access Methods (MAM) are employed to accelerate the processing of similarity queries, such as the range and the k-nearest neighbor queries. Current methods improve the quer...
Marcos R. Vieira, Caetano Traina Jr., Fabio Jun Ta...
Current distributed database and stream processing systems assume that the network connecting nodes in the data processor is "always on," and that the absence of a netwo...
Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel M...