The problem of nding the best answers to a query quickly, rather than nding all answers, is of increasing importance as relational databases are applied in multimedia and decision...
The need to search for complex and recurring patterns in database sequences is shared by many applications. In this paper, we discuss how to express and support efficiently sophis...
Reza Sadri, Carlo Zaniolo, Amir M. Zarkesh, Jafar ...
Abstract: We propose a framework for the specification of extensible database systems. A particular goal is to implement a software component for parsing and rule-based optimizatio...
Query answering in Ontology Based Data Access (OBDA) exploits the knowledge of an ontology’s TBox to deal with incompleteness of the ABox (or data source). Current query-answerin...
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
Michael Meier 0002, Michael Schmidt, Fang Wei, Geo...