XML is quickly becoming the de facto standard for data exchange over the Internet. This is
creating a new set of data management requirements involving XML, such as the need to …

Protecting rights over relational data is of ever increasing interest, especially considering
areas where sensitive, valuable content is to be outsourced. A good example is a data …

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 …

As Web applications manipulate an increasing amount of XML, there is a growing interest in
storing XML data in relational databases. Due to the mismatch between the complexity of …

Data mining and knowledge discovery (DMKD) is a fast-growing field of research. Its
popularity is caused by an ever increasing demand for tools that help in revealing and …

With the standardization of XML as an information exchange language over the Internet, a
huge amount of information is formatted in XML documents. In order to analyze this …

MPEG-7 constitutes a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. It can be
expected that a lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions will be set up in the …

In this paper, we present a data and an execution model that allow for efficient storage and
retrieval of XML documents in a relational database. The data model is strictly based on the …

Like HTML, many XML documents are resident on native file systems. Since XML data is
irregular and verbose, the disk space and the network bandwidth are wasted. To overcome …

In recent years,“document store” NoSQL systems have exploded in popularity. A large part
of this popularity has been driven by the adoption of the JSON data model in these NoSQL …