When transforming data one often wants certain information in the data source to be preserved, i.e., we identify parts of the source data and require these parts to be transformed...
We study and present our findings on two closely related problems on xpath rewriting using views when both the view and the query are tree patterns involving /,// and []. First, g...
Abstract. The goal of this paper is to study tractable iteration mechanisms for bags. The presence of duplicates in bags prevents iteration mechanisms developed in the context of s...
Documents, especially long ones, may contain very diverse passages related to different topics. Passages Retrieval approaches have shown that, in most cases, there is a great pote...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
The traditional statistical assumption for interpreting histograms and justifying approximate query processing methods based on them is that all elements in a bucket have the same...