Several native approaches to storing large XML data sets exist. In all of these approaches the internal data representation is designed to support any ad-hoc XQuery query. In this...
Similarity joins in databases can be used for several important tasks such as data cleaning and instance-based data integration. In this paper, we explore ways how to support such ...
Several biological databases exist which use different formats for storing data. Further, each database has its own schema and a query interface. There exist no standard conversio...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
The presence of XML in many recent hypermedia management tools and methods (W3I3, SMIL, etc.) shows better than ever that both structural and textual criteria will continue to pla...
Jacques Le Maitre, Yves Marcoux, Elisabeth Murisas...