Query folding refers to the activity of determining if and how a query can be answered using a given set of resources, which might be materialized views, cached results of previou...
Abstract. The problem of answering queries using views has been studied extensively due to its relevance in a wide variety of data-management applications. In these applications, w...
Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
The interaction between recursion in XPATH and recursion in DTDs makes it challenging to answer XPATH queries on XML data that is stored in an RDBMS via schema-based shredding. We...