XML has emerged as the standard data exchange format for Internet-based business applications. This has created the need to publish existing business data, stored in relational da...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Jerry Kiernan, Eugene J....
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...
Reflective Relational Machines were introduced by S. Abiteboul, C. Papadimitriou and V. Vianu in 1994, as variations of Turing machines which are suitable for the computation of ...
Flavio Antonio Ferrarotti, Jose Maria Turull Torre...
Nested Intervals generalize Nested Sets. They are immune to hierarchy reorganization problem. They allow answering ancestor path hierarchical queries algorithmically - without acc...
In this paper, we propose a simple and flexible execution model that (i) supports a wide spectrum of alternative optimization and execution strategies and their mixtures, (ii) pro...
Yijian Bai, Hetal Thakkar, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zani...