Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
Data provenance is information that describes how a given data item was produced. The provenance includes source and intermediate data as well as the transformations involved in pr...
We present a new efficient algorithm for obtaining utilitarian optimal solutions to Disjunctive Temporal Problems with Preferences (DTPPs). The previous state-of-the-art system ac...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
Full disjunctions are an associative extension of the outerjoin operator to an arbitrary number of relations. Their main advantage is the ability to maximally combine data from di...