Abstract. We consider the setting of ontological database access, where an Abox is given in form of a relational database D and where a Boolean conjunctive query q has to be evalua...
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...
"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
We study the problem of querying relational data embedded in XML. Relational data can be represented by various tree structures in XML. However, current XML query methods, such as...
In this paper we propose DFL -- a formal, graphical workflow language for dataflows, i.e., workflows where large amounts of complex data are manipulated, and the structure of the ...
Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Jacek Sroka, Je...