Database and XML Technologies

Invited Talk (Shared with DBPL).- Patterns and Types for Querying XML Documents.- Constraints and Views.- Checking Functional Dependency Satisfaction in XML.- A Theoretic Framework for Answering XPath Queries Using Views.- Labeling and Path Evaluation.- A Path-Based Labeling Scheme for Efficient Structural Join.- The BIRD Numbering Scheme for XML and Tree Databases - Deciding and Reconstructing Tree Relations Using Efficient Arithmetic Operations.- Efficient Handling of Positional Predicates Within XML Query Processing.- Indexing.- Relational Index Support for XPath Axes.- Supporting XPath Axes with Relational Databases Using a Proxy Index.- An Extended Preorder Index for Optimising XPath Expressions.- Benchmarking and Query Processing.- XPathMark: An XPath Benchmark for the XMark Generated Data.- MemBeR: A Micro-benchmark Repository for XQuery.- Main Memory Implementations for Binary Grouping.- Documents and Biometrical Applications.- Logic Wrappers and XSLT Transformations for Tuples Extraction from HTML.- Approximate Subtree Identification in Heterogeneous XML Documents Collections.- A Framework for XML-Based Integration of Data, Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain.- Industrial Session.- Optimizing Runtime XML Processing in Relational Databases.- Panel (Together with DBPL).- Panel: "Whither XML, ca. 2005?".