IEEE Computer Society
| December 2008 | Vol. 31 No. 4 |
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters |
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 |
| Report: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2008) |
| Anastassia Ailamaki, Shivnath Babu, Pedro Furtado, Sam Lightstone, |
| Guy Lohman, Pat Martin, Vivek Narasayya, Glenn Pauley, Ken Salem, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Gerhard Weikum | 2 |
| Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Michael J. Carey and Vassilis J. Tsotras | 6 |
Special Issue on XQuery Processing: Practice and Experience |
| Pathfinder: XQuery Off the Relational Shelf | Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner | 7 |
| Querying XML in Timber | Yuqing Wu, Stelios Paparizos, H. V. Jagadish | 15 |
| XQuery Rewrite Optimization in IBM DB2 pureXML | Fatma Özcan, Normen Seemann, Ling Wang | 25 |
| Towards a Unified Declarative and Imperative XQuery Processor | Zhen Hua Liu, Anguel Novoselsky, Vikas Arora | 33 |
| Big, Fast XQuery: Enabling Content Applications | Mary Holstege | 41 |
| Experiences with XQuery Processing for Data and Service Federation | Michael Blow, Vinayak Borkar, |
| Michael Carey, Daniel Engovatov, Dmitry Lychagin, Panagiotis Reveliotis, Joshua Spiegel, Till Westmann | 49 |
| Data Aggregation, Heterogeneous Data Sources and Streaming Processing: How Can XQuery Help? |
| Marc Van Cappellen, Wouter Cordewiner, Carlo Innocenti | 57 |
| Ten Reasons Why Saxon XQuery is Fast | Michael Kay | 65 |
Announcements and Notices |
| ICDE 2009 Conference | backcover |