Complete answer aggregates for tree-like databases: A novel approach to combine querying and navigation

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 161-215

  Meuss, Holger ^a   Schulz, Klaus U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Answer presentation; Design; Information retrieval; Logic; Query languages; Semistructured data; SGML; Structured documents; Tree databases; Tree matching; XML

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008789639     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/382979.383042     Document Type: Article

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