• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.416-428
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• 2005

In the paper we propose an index method for XML streaming services, where a server broadcasts XML data to a lot of clients in wireless information systems. In order to control the access and tuning time of mobile clients, the proposed method constructs the XML stream through replicating partial index intermixed with parts of data. For this purpose, we propose a two-level tree structure for separating index and XML data into two parts: replicated vs. non-replicated. We analyze the performance of the proposed method with respect to access time and tuning time. With the analysis result, we derive the optimal level value.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.48-60
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• 2004

XML documents consist of elements that are basic units of information. When the structure of XML documents is changed dynamically, we need to update structure information efficiently without changing the information of the index structure for fast retrieval. In this paper, we propose a dynamic indexing model scheme that updates the index structure in real time as the structure of XML documents is changed by insertion and deletion of elements. Our dynamic indexing model consists of a structure information representation method and a dynamic index structure. The structure information representation method supports various types of structure retrievals. Our dynamic index structure processes various structural queries efficiently. We show through various experiments that our method outperforms existing ones in processing various types of queries such as content based queries, structural queries and hybrid queries.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.265-278
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• 2006

This paper presents a two-dimensional type inheritance hierarchy index(2D-THI) for XML databases. XML Schema is one of schema models for the XML documents supporting. The type inheritance. The conventional indexing techniques for XML databases can not support XML queries on type inheritance hierarchies. We construct a two-dimensional index structure using multidimensional file organizations for supporting type inheritance hierarchy in XML queries. This indexing technique deals with the problem of clustering index entries in the two-dimensional domain space that consists of a key element domain and a type identifier domain based on the user query pattern. This index enhances query performance by adjusting the degree of clustering between the two domains. For performance evaluation, we have compared our proposed 2D-THI with the conventional class hierarchy indexing techniques in object-oriented databases such as CH-index and CG-tree through the cost model. As the result of the performance evaluations, we have verified that our proposed two-dimensional type inheritance indexing technique can efficiently support the query Processing in XML databases according to the query types.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.94-100
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• 2006

Computing paradigm shift to internet-based one has accelerated the use of XML in diverse applications. This phenomena has made the explosive increases of XML data and it triggered many active researches in maintaining very huge amount of XML data in turn. In this paper we present a persistent graph-based XML indexing lot data-centric XML data. In our approach we use 3 graphs to represent XML indexes and XML data itself. They are schema graph, data graph index. And then we have mapped those graphs to B+-trees the persistency. With our approach we can achieve linear query execution time with the increase of XML sizes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2004

최근 XML데이터베이스는 웹의 발전과 더불어 광범위한 인터넷의 자원 공유에 크게 기여하고 있으며 이러한 자원 공유를 위해서는 XML데이타베이스에 대한 구조적 정의로 타입 상속 구조를 가지는 XML Schema를 사용한다. 그러므로 XML Schema를 따르는 XML데이타베이스에 대한 효율적인 색인기법에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 다차원 색인구조와 사전에 분석한 사용자 질의 패턴에 대한 정보를 이용하여 주어진 질의들에 의해서 액세스되는 색인 페이지의 평균 개수가 최소가 되게 하는 최적의 이차원 타입 색인 구조를 구성 할 수 있는 2D-THI를 제안한다. 제안한 2D-THI의 성능을 비교 평가하기 위해서 기존의 객체지향 데이터베이스에서 클래스 상속에 대한 색인구조로 널리 사용되고 있는 CH-index와 CG-tree를 XML데이타베이스에 적용하여 이들과 2D-THI를 비용모델을 통해서 비교 분석한다. 그 결과로 본 논문에서 제안한 2D-THI로서 다양한 질의 패턴에 대해서 최적의 색인구조를 구성할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.301-303
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• 2002

XML 문서는 문서의 내용뿐 아니라, 의미를 가지는 구조 정보, 그리고 다양한 의미를 부과할 수 있는 링크 정보를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 XML 문서를 보다 효율적으로 관리하기 위하여 DTD와 XML 문서에 대한 새로운 저장 방법과 이를 이용한 색인 모델을 제안한다. 이를 위해 하나의 XML 문서를 저장함에 있어, 엘리먼트 구조 정보, 애트리뷰트 정보, 링크 정보의 구성 방법을 제시하고, 이를 바탕으로 링크 정보론 이용한 내용 검색 색인 모델과 구조 검색, 애트리뷰트 검색을 위한 색인 모델을 설계한다. 또한 제안된 모델에서의 사용자들의 다양한 질의 유형의 처리 과정을 설명한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1093-1105
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• 2007

This paper presents a multidimensional type inheritance indexing technique (MD-TIX) for XML databases. We use a multidimensional file organization as the index structure. In conventional XML database indexing techniques using one-dimensional index structures, they do not efficiently handle complex queries involving both nested elements and type inheritance hierarchies. We extend a two-dimensional type hierarchy indexing technique(2D-THI) for indexing the nested elements of XML databases. 2D-THI is an indexing scheme that deals with the problem of clustering elements in a two-dimensional domain space consisting of the key value domain and the type identifier domain for indexing a simple element in a type hierarchy. In our extended scheme, we handle the clustering of the index entries in a multidimensional domain space consisting of a key value domain and multiple type identifier domains that include one type identifier domain per type hierarchy on a path expression. This scheme efficiently supports queries that involve search conditions on the nested element represented by an extended path expression. An extended path expression is a path expression in which every type hierarchy on a path can be substituted by an individual type or a subtype hierarchy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.401-404
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• 2006

최근 XML 데이터베이스는 웹의 발전과 더불어 광범위한 인터넷의 자원 공유에 크게 기여하고 있다. XML로 작성된 문서를 저장하고 검색하기 위해 XML 문서의 저장, 질의언어, 질의처리 등에 대한 분야가 활발히 연구되고 있다. 특히 그 중 질의처리의 처리비용을 줄이기 위한 데이터 질의 최적화 기법에 관한 연구가 중요한 과제이다. 증포된 엘리먼트에 대한 기존의 색인기법들은 일차원 색인구조를 이용함으로써 XML Schema가 가지는 타입상속 개념을 고려한 XML 질의들에 대한 처리를 효율적으로 지원하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 XML Schema가 가지는 타입상속 개념을 고려한 XML 질의들에 대한 처리를 효율적으로 지원할 수 있는 다차원 증포 엘리먼트 색인구조와 다차원 경로 엘리먼트 색인구조의 운용법을 제시한다. 또한 효과적인 질의 처리를 하기 위한 XML 데이터베이스 색인구조의 유지비용을 줄이기 위하여 저장 공간 및 갱신 유지 비용을 최소화할 수 있는 효과적인 색인할당 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1133-1148
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• 2012

This paper presents a hierarchical structuring method for the multidimensional type inheritance indices (MD-TIXs) that support the processing of XML queries in XML databases. MD-TIX uses a multidimensional index structure for efficiently supporting ancestor-descendant explorations that involve both nested element and type inheritance hierarchies. However, In the case of a long Xpath, the building and maintenance of MD-TIX are very difficult because of index entry construction problem. So, we propose a type inheritance index hierarchy method for solving this difficulty. We first construct base indices that support direct relationship explorations between adjacent two types on a given Xpath, and then, based on these base indices, we construct hierarchically the derived indices that support indirect relationship explorations between any two types of Xpath until constructing one target index for supporting the full Xpath. And we also present an algorithm that efficiently constructs a partial index hierarchy for supporting given a set of sub-pathes explorations.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.320-330
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• 2004

Query languages for XML use paths in a data graph to represent queries. Actually, paths in a data graph are used as a basic constructor of an XML query. User can write more expressive Queries by using Patterns (e.g. regular expressions) for paths. There are many identical paths in a data graph because of the feature of semi-structured data. Current researches for indexing XML utilize identical paths in a data graph, but such an index can grow larger than source data graph and cannot guarantee efficient access path. In this paper we propose a partitioning technique that can partition all the paths in a data graph. We develop an index graph that can find appropriate partitions for a path query efficiently. The size of our index graph can be adjusted regardless of the source data. So, we can significantly improve the cost for index graph traversals. In the performance study, we show our index much faster than other graph based indexes.