Querying semistructured heterogeneous information

Journal of Systems Integration

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 381-407

  Quass, Dallan ^a   Rajaraman, Anand ^a   Ullman, Jeffrey ^a   Wedom, Jennifer ^a   Sagiv, Yehoshua ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Query language; Semistructured data

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

OBJECT REPOSITORY; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0031236663     PISSN: 09254676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008287522472     Document Type: Article

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