In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of "querying agents" can send queries to a collection of "information agents", we formalize the problem of ...
The optimization of similarity queries using metric access methods has been widely discussed in the last decades. Similarity queries consider one object as the query center, and re...
Humberto Luiz Razente, Maria Camila Nardini Barion...
: Recursive queries are required in many object-oriented database applications. Among them we can mention Bill-Of-Material (BOM), stock market dependencies, various kinds of networ...
Tomasz Pieciukiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz...
This paper introduces schema tuple queries and argues for their suitability in representing knowledge over standard relational databases. Schema tuple queries are queries that ret...
Due to the popularity of the XML data format, several query languages for XML have been proposed, specially devised to handle data whose structure is unknown, loose, or absent. Wh...
Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Ioana Manolescu