This paper surveys the most relevant research on combining Data Warehouse (DW) and
Web data. It studies the XML technologies that are currently being used to integrate, store …

The Web is causing a revolution in how we represent, retrieve, and process information Its
growth has given us a universally accessible database-but in the form of a largely …

With the prevalence of graph data in a variety of domains, there is an increasing need for a
language to query and manipulate graphs with heterogeneous attributes and structures. We …

This paper describes the overall design and architecture of the Timber XML database
system currently being implemented at the University of Michigan. The system is based upon …

We study the satisfiability problem associated with XPath in the presence of DTDs. This is
the problem of determining, given a query p in an XPath fragment and a DTD D, whether or …

Publisher Summary Traditional databases allow for the storage and retrieval of large
amounts of data, but do not make any concessions for uncertainty in the data. In many …

Tree pattern matching is one of the most fundamental tasks for XML query processing.
Holistic twig query processing techniques [4, 16] have been developed to minimize the …

Extensible markup language (XML) is emerging as a de facto standard for information
exchange among various applications on the World Wide Web. There has been a growing …

Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are
typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus …

XML has reached a widespread diffusion as a language for representing nearly any kind of
data source, from relational databases to digital movies. Due to the growing interest toward …