Efficient evaluation of XML queries requires the determination of whether a relationship exists between two elements. A number of labeling schemes have been designed to label the ...
We model a Digital Library as a formal context in which objects are documents and attributes are terms describing documents contents. A formal concept is very close to the notion o...
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...
Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
Unlike traditional database queries, keyword queries do not adhere to predefined syntax and are often dirty with irrelevant words from natural languages. This makes accurate and e...