I have been designing and building applications, including the databases used by those applications, for several decades now. I have seen similar problems approached by different d...
XQuery is a powerful language defined by the W3C to query XML documents. Its query functionalities and its expressiveness satisfy the major needs of both the database community an...
Nicolas Travers, Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc, Tianxiao Li...
The skyline of a set P of multi-dimensional points (tuples) consists of those points in P for which no clearly better point in P exists, using component-wise comparison on domains ...
Our concern in this paper is with conjecturing diagnoses to explain what happened to a system, given a theory of system behaviour and some observed (aberrant) behaviour. We charac...
Answering queries over ontologies is an important issue for the Semantic Web. Aggregate queries were widely studied for relational databases but almost no results are known for ag...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Ca...