How-To queries answer fundamental data analysis questions of the form: “How should the input change in order to achieve the desired output”. As a Reverse Data Management probl...
Variables are the distinguishing new feature of XPath 2.0 which permits to select n-tuples of nodes in trees. It is known that the Core of XPath 2.0 captures n-ary first-order (FO...
Emmanuel Filiot, Joachim Niehren, Jean-Marc Talbot...
We investigate the problem of how to extend constraint query languages with aggregate operators. We deal with standard relational aggregation, and also with aggregates speci c to ...
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
Faceted classification allows one to model applications with complex classification hierarchies using orthogonal dimensions. Recent work has examined the use of faceted classi...