Popular XML languages, like XPath, use “treepattern” queries to select nodes based on their structural characteristics. While many processing methods have already been propose...
Portals are one of the rapidly growing applications on the Web, providing a single interface to access different sources (providers). Providing fast response time is one of the c...
Mehregan Mahdavi, John Shepherd, Boualem Benatalla...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
Abstract. Transparent information integration across distributed and heterogeneous data sources and computational tools is a prime concern for bioinformatics. Recently, there have ...
Nowadays, large distributed databases are commonplace. Client applications increasingly rely on accessing objects from multiple remote hosts. The Internet itself is a huge network ...