Abstract—XML indexing and search has become an important topic, and twig joins are key building blocks in XML search systems. This paper describes a novel approach using a nested...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
An increasing number of applications use XML data published from relational databases. For speed and convenience, such applications routinely cache this XML data locally and acces...
Philip Bohannon, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, P....
In this paper, we present the use of semantic caching in the environment of schema-based super-peer networks. Different from traditional caching, semantic caching allows the answe...
The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...