The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science


PhD Qualifying examination


"Storage Strategies for Semi-structured Data and XML"


By Mr. Haifeng Jiang


Abstract:

   
 
XML is emerging as a de facto internet standard for information 
exchange Among e-businesses and applications. With its dramatic 
adoption and its ability to model structured, unstructured and 
semi-structured data, XML has the potential of becoming the data 
model for internet data. As a consequence, efficient storage 
managers for XML (tree-structured data) have been called for 
to facilitate the task of storing, generating and querying XML 
documents. Basically, we can store XML data in existing database 
management systems, such as OODBMS and RDBMS. And a more ambitious 
approach is to develop tailored XML management systems for XML data. 
In this paper, we present a survey on different approaches for 
storing XML data with the above methodologies. Before we conclude 
the survey with some possible future work, we also discuss how 
the popular commercial database management systems are providing 
XML support in a comparative way.


Date:			9 May 2001 (Wednesday)                  
	
Time:   		3:00 p.m. onwards                
        
Venue:                  Room 3304
			Lift 17-18               

Chairman:               Dr. Jelena Misic

Committee Members:      Prof. Hongjun Lu (Supervisor)
                        Prof. Frederick Lochovsky
			Prof. Dik-lun Lee
			Dr. Dimitris Papadias
			


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