In this paper we study the problem of deciding whether a regular path query over views in data-integration systems can be re-expressed without recursion. The problem becomes chall...
Motivated to a large extent by the substantial and growing prominence of the World-Wide Web and the potential benefits that may be obtained by applying database concepts and tech...
Abstract. Semistructured data has no absolute schema xed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigi...
Applications have an increasing need to manage semistructured data such as data encoded in XML along with conventional structured data. We extend the structured object database ...
Tirthankar Lahiri, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer Widom
Libraries, museums, and other organizations make their electronic contents available to a growing number of users on the Web. A large fraction of the information published is store...