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 …

This article describes XRel, a novel approach for storage and retrieval of XML documents
using relational databases. In this approach, an XML document is decomposed into nodes …

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 …

XML is emerging as a new major standard for representing data on the world wide web.
Several XML storage models have been proposed to store XML data in different database …

The need of processing graph reachability queries stems from many applications that
manage complex data as graphs. The applications include transportation network, Internet …

Update management of XML documents is an increasingly important research issue in XML
databases, because contents of XML documents evolve as time goes by. Even though, XML …

XML holds the promise to yield (1) a more precise search by providing additional information
in the elements,(2) a better integrated search of documents from heterogeneous sources,(3) …

XML query processing based on labeling schemes has been thoroughly studied in the past
several years. Recently efficient processing of updates in dynamic XML data has gained …

We address issue related to containment join processing in tree-structured data such as
XML documents. A containment join takes two sets of XML node elements as input and …

The inverted index is widely used in the existing information retrieval field. In order to
support containment queries for structured documents such as XML, it needs to be …