The XML language have been becoming de-facto a standard for representation of heterogeneous data in the Internet. From database point of view, XML is a new approach to data modelli...
Star queries are the most prevalent kind of queries in data warehousing, OLAP and business intelligence applications. Thus, there is an imperative need for efficiently processing ...
Nikos Karayannidis, Aris Tsois, Timos K. Sellis, R...
We introduce the notion of bounded nondeterminism for logic programs and queries. A program and a query have bounded nondeterminism if there are finitely many refutations for the...
PIVOT and UNPIVOT, two operators on tabular data that exchange rows and columns, enable data transformations useful in data modeling, data analysis, and data presentation. They ca...
XTCcmp, the XQuery Compiler of a native XML database system, extends Starburst's well-known Query Graph Model to serve as an internal representation and basis for query restr...