Existing SQL aggregate functions present important limitations to compute percentages. This article proposes two SQL aggregate functions to compute percentages addressing such lim...
The optimization of similarity queries using metric access methods has been widely discussed in the last decades. Similarity queries consider one object as the query center, and re...
Humberto Luiz Razente, Maria Camila Nardini Barion...
XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
In most wireless sensor networks, applications submit their requests as queries and wireless sensor network transmits the requested data to the applications. However, most existing...