Given a set of n query points in a general metric space, a metricspace skyline (MSS) query asks what are the closest points to all these query points in the database. Here, consid...
: We present a grammar-based approach to specifying k-ary queries for XML documents. k-ary queries simultaneously locate k nodes of an input tree as specified by a given relation. ...
Complex queries often contain common or similar subexpressions, either within a single query or among multiple queries submitted as a batch. If so, query execution time can be imp...
Jingren Zhou, Johann Christoph Freytag, Per-Å...
In an on-line statistical database, the query system should leave unanswered queries asking for sums that could lead to the disclosure of confidential data. To check that, every su...