The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
Abstract. Retrieving semistructured (XML) data typically requires either a structured query such as XPath, or a keyword query that does not take structure into account. In this pap...
The Ambient Logic is a modal logic proposed to describe the structural and computational properties of distributed and mobile computations. The static part of the Ambient Logic is,...
Querying XML effectively and efficiently using declarative languages such as XQuery and XPath has been widely studied in both academic and industrial settings. Most RDBMS vendors ...
Zhen Hua Liu, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, James W. W...
While much recent research has focussed on extending databases beyond the traditional relational model, relatively little has been done to develop database tools for querying data...