A fundamental problem in XML query processing is tree pattern query (TPQ) matching which computes all data instances in an XML database that match an input TPQ. There is a lot of r...
In a data warehouse (DW) environment, when the operational environment does not posses or does not want to inform the data about the changes that occurred, controls have to be impl...
Rosana L. de B. A. Rocha, Leonardo Figueiredo Card...
OLAP systems support data analysis through a multidimensional data model, according to which data facts are viewed as points in a space of application-related dimensions", or...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Alejandro...
We consider the problems of computing aggregation queries in temporal databases, and of maintaining materialized temporal aggregate views efficiently. The latter problem is partic...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...