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Maria F. Fernandez

180 Park Ave - Building 103
Florham Park, NJ
http://www.research.att.com/~mff
Subject matter expert in Information management, XML, XML query languages

Technical Documents

Geocast for Wireless Sensor Networks
Rajesh Panta, Robert Hall, Josh Auzins, Maria Fernandez
IEEE Conference on Network Protocols,  2011.  [PDF]  [BIB]

IEEE Copyright

Cloud Resource Orchestration: A Data-Centric Approach
Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, Jacobus Van , Maria Fernandez
In Proceedings of The 5th biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR),  The biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) 2011,  2011.  [PDF]  [BIB]

the CIDR conference Copyright

Patents

7356528

Phrase matching in documents having nested-structure arbitrary (document-specific) markup, Tue Apr 08 18:12:43 EDT 2008

A method of searching a document having nested-structure document-specific markup (such as Extensible Markup Language (XML)) involves 112 receiving a query that designates at least (A) a phrase to be matched in a phrase matching process, and (B) a selective designation of at least a tag or annotation that is to be ignored during the phrase matching process. The method further involves 114 deriving query-specific indices based on query-independent indices that were created specific to each document, and 116 carrying out the phrase matching process using the query-specific indices on the document having the nested-structure document-specific markup.

6785673

Method for converting relational data into XML, Tue Aug 31 18:10:03 EDT 2004

A method for converting relational data to XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is provided. The method can use a greedy algorithm to efficiently construct materialized XML views of relational databases. A greedy algorithm designed for XML view definition queries is provided for decomposing a large query into smaller queries and determining which query will run faster without actually running the query.

6604100

Method For Converting Relational Data Into A Structured Document, Tue Aug 05 18:08:49 EDT 2003

A method for converting relational data to XML (Extensible Markup Language) is provided. The method, sometimes referred to as SilkRoute, provides a general, dynamic and efficient tool for viewing and querying relational data in XML. SilkRoute can express mappings of relational data in XML that conforms to arbitrary public document type definitions. Also, SilkRoute can materialize the fragment of an XML view needed by an application and it can fully exploit the query engine of a relational database management system whenever data items in an XML view need to be materialized.

5956720

Strudel: A Web Site Management System, Tue Sep 21 18:05:17 EDT 1999

Strudel is a system for specifying and generating data-intensive Web sites that separates the tasks of accessing and integrating a site's data sources, building its structure, and generating its HTML representation. For the first two tasks, Strudel uses a novel declarative query language called StruQL, which extends SQL with the ability to construct new, richly structured graphs. Strudel helps designers of data-intensive Web sites built modular, reusable site-definition code, and supporting better site engineering tasks. Strudel was applied to a production Web site inside AT&T, the High Toll Notifier Web site, and resulted in a smaller, more reusable, analyzable and optimizable code.

Documents (presentations, white papers)

HACEMOSBriefing
  HACEMOSBriefing.pdf  (21655k)

HISPA-LadyGaga-2012-04
  HISPA-LadyGaga-2012-04.pptx  (9728k)

cisco
  cisco.rar  (5008k)

Publications

Paper and proposal reviews: is the process flawed?
Henry F. Korth, Philip A. Bernstein, Maria F. Fernández, Le Gruenwald, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Kathryn S. McKinley, M. Tamer Özsu
SIGMOD Record,  v37,  #3,  pp 36-39,  2008.  [LINK]  [BIB]

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
Scott Boag, Don Chamberlain, Maria F. Fernández, Daniela Florescu, Jonathan Robie, Jérôme Siméon
2007.  [LINK]  [BIB]

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
Denise Draper, Peter Fankhauser, Mary F. Fernández, Ashok Malhotra, Kristoffer Rose, Michael Rys, Jérôme Siméon, Philip Wadler
2007.  [LINK]  [BIB]

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)
M. Fernández, A. Malhotra, J. Marsh, M. Nagy, N. Walsh
2007.  [LINK]  [BIB]

DXQ: a distributed XQuery scripting language
Maria F. Fernández, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Nicola Onose, Jérôme Siméon
XIME-P,  2007.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Tips on giving a good demo
Maria F. Fernández
SIGMOD Record,  v34,  #4,  pp 13-14,  2005.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Optimizing Sorting and Duplicate Elimination in XQuery Path Expressions
Maria F. Fernández, Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jérôme Siméon, Roel Vercammen
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 16th International Conference,  pp 554-563,  2005.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Story of Galax
Maria F. Fernández
Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web, 11,  pp 30-47,  2005.  [BIB]

XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language
Howard Katz,  Addison-Wesley,  2004.  [BIB]

The Simplest XML Storage Manager Ever
Avinash Vyas, Maria F. Fernández, Jérôme Siméon
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P),  pp 37-42,  2004.  [BIB]

Techniques for Storing XML
Maria F. Fernández, Sihem Amer-Yahia
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering,  2002.  [PDF]  [BIB]

Reminiscences on Influential Papers
Kenneth A. Ross, Maria F. Fernandez, Kyuseok Shim
SIGMOD Record,  v31,  #2,  pp 63-64,  2002.  [PDF]  [BIB]

A Semi-monad for Semi-structured Data
Maria F. Fernández, Jérôme Siméon, Philip Wadler
International Conference on Database Theory,  pp 263-300,  2001.  [LINK]  [BIB]

UnQL: A Query Language and Algebra for Semistructured Data Based on Structural Recursion
Peter Buneman, Maria F. Fernandez, Dan Suciu
VLDB Journal,  v9,  #1,  pp 76-110,  2000.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Declarative Specification of Web Sites with Strudel
Maria F. Fernández, Daniela Florescu, Alon Y. Levy, Dan Suciu
VLDB J.,  v9,  #1,  pp 38-55,  2000.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Storing Semistructured Data with STORED
Alin Deutsch, Maria F. Fernández, Dan Suciu
ACM SIGMOD Conference,  pp 431-442,  1999.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Optimizing Regular Path Expressions Using Graph Schemas
Maria F. Fernandez, Dan Suciu
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Data Engineering,  pp 14-23,  1998.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Automatic Checking of Instruction Specifications
Maria F. Fernandez, Norman Ramsey
International Conference on Software Engineering,  pp 326-336,  1997.  [LINK]  [BIB]

Adding Structure to Unstructured Data
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Maria F. Fernandez, Dan Suciu
ICDT,  pp 336-350,  1997.  [LINK]  [BIB]

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