Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries ha...
The number of documents published via WWW in form of SGML/HTML has been rapidly growing for years. Efficient, declarative access mechanisms for this type of documents
Although many spatio-temporal conceptual models has been proposed in the last years, users must express their queries on the underlying physical data structures. In the context of ...
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
The semantic web represents meta-data as a relation of triples using the RDF data model. We have developed a virtual repository system that enables to process queries to RDF views...