Abstract. In this paper, we consider a multidatabase system which consists of media databases and traditional alphanumeric databases. The semantic relationships which may exist amo...
Jia-Ling Koh, Arbee L. P. Chen, Paul C. M. Chang, ...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
In this paper, we present a query translation algorithm which allows object-oriented queries to be automatically translated into a relational query language. Our goal is to provid...
Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Andreas Mieths...
We propose a programming paradigm that tries to get close to both the semantic simplicity of relational algebra, and the expressive power of unrestricted programming languages. It...