Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existing object-relational datab...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
A schema mapping is a high-level specification that describes the relationship between two database schemas. As schema mappings constitute the essential building blocks of data ex...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Alan Nash, Luci...
This paper is an extended abstract of the talk given at ICCS’09. Rules have long been considered as an essential component of knowledge-based systems. We focus here on conceptual...
Abstract. Classification is a central concept in object-oriented approaches such as object-oriented programming, object-oriented knowledge representation systems (including descrip...
We introduce pseudo-naive evaluation, a method for execution of mixed top-down/bottom-up logic programs and deductive databases. The method is intermediate in power between naive ...