Advanced query language for manipulating complex entities

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 869-889

  Niemi, Timo ^a   Junkkari, Marko ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^a   Viita, Samu ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complex entities; Information retrieval; Physical assembly; Query language; XML documents

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SAMPLING; SEMANTICS; XML;

COMPLEX ENTITIES; NESTED LEVELS; PHYSICAL ASSEMBLY; XML DOCUMENTS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 4243172291     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(03)00065-7     Document Type: Article

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