The notion of distributed functional monitoring was recently introduced by Cormode, Muthukrishnan and Yi [CMY08] to initiate a formal study of the communication cost of certain fu...
Chrisil Arackaparambil, Joshua Brody, Amit Chakrab...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
Regular expression matching is a key task (and often computational bottleneck) in a variety of software tools and applications. For instance, the standard grep and sed utilities, ...
It is known that the composition of schema mappings, each specified by source-to-target tgds (st-tgds), can be specified by a secondorder tgd (SO tgd). We consider the question of...
We show how to efficiently evaluate generic map-filter-product queries, generalizations of select-project-join (SPJ) queries in relational algebra, based on a combination of two...