• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.75-94
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• 2009

Since XML emerged as a standard for data exchange on the web, it has been established as a core component in e-Commerce and efficient query processing over XML data in ubiquitous computing environment has been also receiving much attention. Recently, the techniques were proposed whereby an XML document is fragmented into XML fragments to be streamed and the mobile clients receive the stream while processing queries over it. In processing queries over an XML fragment stream, the average access time significantly depends on the order of fragments in the stream. As such, for query performance, an efficient organization of XML fragment stream is required as well as the indexing for energy-efficient query processing due to the reduction of tuning time. In this paper, a technique of XML fragment stream organization based on query frequencies, fragment size, fragment access frequencies, and an active XML-based indexing scheme are proposed. Through implementation and performance experiments, our techniques were shown to be efficient compared with the conventional XML fragment stream organizations.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.1
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• pp.27-42
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• 2009

In realizing ubiquitous computing, techniques of efficiently using the limited resource at client such as mobile devices are required. With a mobile device with limited amount of memory, the techniques of XML stream query processing should be employed to process queries over a large volume of XML data. Recently, several techniques were proposed which fragment XML documents into XML fragments and stream them for query processing at client. During query processing, there could be great difference in resource usage (query processing time and memory usage) depending on how the source XML documents are fragmented. As such, an efficient fragmentation technique is needed. In this paper, we propose an XML fragmentation technique whereby resource efficiency in query processing at client could be enhanced. For this, we first present a cost model of query processing over XML fragment stream. Then, we propose an algorithm for resource-efficient XML fragmentation. Through implementation and experiments, we showed that our fragmentation technique outperformed previous techniques both in processing time and memory usage. The contribution of this paper is to have made the techniques of query processing over XML fragment stream more feasible for practical use.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.257-268
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• 2013

Query processing on streamed XML fragments is one of key issues in XML databases. In this paper, XFSeed (XML Fragment Processor with Seed label) is proposed to provide effective query processing by removing many redundant path evaluations and minimizing the number of fragments processed. The conducted experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme efficiently handles query processing and reduces memory usage.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 2008

This paper is on query processing in the mobile devices where memory capacity is limited. In case that a query against a large volume of XML data is processed in such a mobile device, techniques of fragmenting the XML data into chunks and of streaming and processing them are required. Such techniques make it possible to process queries without materializing the XML data in its entirety. The previous schemes such as XFrag[4], XFPro[5], XFLab[6] are not scalable with respect to the increase of the size of the XML data because they lack proper memory management capability. After some information on XML fragments necessary for query processing is stored, it is not deleted even after it becomes of no use. As such, when the XML fragments are dynamically generated and infinitely streamed, there could be no guarantee of normal completion of query processing. In this paper, we address scalability of query processing over dynamic XML fragment stream, proposing techniques of deleting information on XML fragments accumulated during query processing in order to extend the previous schemes. The performance experiments through implementation showed that our extended schemes considerably outperformed the previous ones in memory efficiency and scalability with respect to the size of the XML data.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.17D no.5
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• pp.353-358
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• 2010

Unlike the traditional databases, queries on XML streams are restricted to a real time processing and memory usage. In this paper, a robust labeling scheme is proposed, which quickly identifies structural relationship between XML fragments. The proposed labeling scheme provides an effective query processing by removing many redundant operations and minimizing the number of fragments being processed. In experimental results, the proposed labeling scheme efficiently processes query processing and optimizes memory usage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.113-117
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 실현을 위해서는 이동 단말기의 자원 및 컴퓨팅 파워의 효율적 사용이 필수적이다. 특히, 이동 단말기에 내장된 소프트웨어의 수행에 있어 메모리 효율성, 에너지 효율성, 그리고 처리 효율성이 요구된다. 본 논문은 자원이 제약되어 있는 이동 단말기에서의 XML 데이터에 대한 질의 처리 기술에 관한 것이다. 메모리 용량이 크지 않은 단말기의 경우 대량의 XML 데이터에 대한 질의 처리를 수행하기 위해서는 XML 스트림 질의 처리 기술이 활용되어야 한다. 최근에 제시된 XFrag 기법은 홀-필러(hole-filler) 모델을 이용하여 XML 데이터를 XML 조각(fragment)으로 분할(fragmentation)하여 스트림으로 전송하고 처리할 수 있는 기법이다. 이는 메모리 효율성이 요구되는 이동 단말기에서 전체 XML 문서를 재구성하지 않고 XML 데이터에 대한 질의 처리를 가능하게 한다. 그러나 홀-필러 모델을 사용할 경우 홀과 필러에 대한 부가적인 정보를 저장해야 하므로 메모리 효율성이 높지 못하다. 본 논문에서는 XML 데이터의 구조 정보를 표현하는 XML 레이블링(labelling) 기법을 이용하여 XML 데이터를 조각으로 분할하여 조각 스트림에 대한 질의 처리를 수행하는 기법을 제시한다. 구현 및 성능 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제시한 기법이 기존의 XFrag 기법보다 메모리 사용량과 처리 시간 양면 모두에서 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.67-83
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• 2008

In order to realize ubiquitous computing, it is essential to efficiently use the resources and the computing power of mobile devices. Among others, memory efficiency, energy efficiency, and processing efficiency are required in executing the softwares embedded in mobile devices. In this paper, query processing over XML data in a mobile device where resources are limited is addressed. In a device with limited amount of memory, the techniques of XML. stream query processing need to be employed to process queries over a large volume of XML data Recently, a technique Galled XFrag was proposed whereby XML data is fragmented with the hole-filler model and streamed in fragments for processing. With XFrag, query processing is possible in the mobile device with limited memory without reconstructing the XML data out of its fragment stream. With the hole-filler model, however, memory efficiency is not high because the additional information on holes and fillers needs to be stored. In this paper, we propose a new technique called XFLab whereby XML data is fragmented with the XML labeling scheme which is for representing the structural relationship in XML data, and streamed in fragments for processing. Through implementation and experiments, XML showed that our XFLab outperformed XFrag both in memory usage and processing time.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.202-209
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a design of the metadata engine of the video recording system to minimize the retrieval time. For this purpose, the proposed metadata engine stores the XML metadata as a separated fragment and construct a hierarchical indexing scheme based on the contextual and structural properties of metadata. The hierarchical indexing scheme is consisted of a node index for basic searching and a group index for advanced searching. In this way our approach can minimize the number of indexes and thus the retrieval time. Our simulation results show that the response time of our proposed system is shorter than that of the previous works.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

Intelligent Content is defined as detailed information or fragment of content which contains a semantic data structure. This semantic structure makes possible to do various intelligent operations. There are wide range of content-oriented applications such as classification, retrieval, extraction, translation, presentation and question-answering. The concept of Intelligent Content is applied to various fields like MPEG and Semantic Web. In this paper, we discuss the several important researches of Intelligent Content and how to apply this conception to these fields.