XML Database Research and Issues

Date : 07/09/2007,

Location: Caulfield

Presenters: Dr David Taniar, Monash University

Abstract: It is growingly popular to use XML documents for exchanging information between different types of applications, as well as for representing semi-structured data. XML document, in nature, is complex due to the many ad-hoc ways to represent the data. Storing XML data in a database has also been supported by various database management repositories, including XML-Enabled DBMS and XML-Native DBMS. This leads to the need to address XML-specific issues such as storing XML document versions and warehousing dynamic XML documents, which inherently different from those of relational data. Querying and updating XML data also raise complex issues, due to the hierarchical tree structure of XML data. In this talk, I will discuss these issues and how these are addressed in our research.

Speaker biographies: David Taniar received Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees – all in computer science, specializing in databases. Before joining the School of Business Systems, Monash Clayton in 2001, he was a lecturer in computer science at RMIT and at Gippsland. His database research primarily focuses on query processing, covering object-relational query processing, XML query processing, mobile query processing, and parallel query processing. He has published a book on 'Object-Oriented Oracle', and another book on 'High Performance Parallel Databases' will soon be released by John Wiley & Sons. He is a co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Web Information Systems (Emerald, UK).