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...
Most declarative SQL-like query languagesfor object-oriented database systems (OOSQL) are orthogonal languages allowing for arbitrary nesting of expressions in the select-, from-,...
Hennie J. Steenhagen, Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. B...
Consistent query answering is the term commonly used for the problem of answering queries on databases that violate certain integrity constraints. We address this problem for univ...
We review the notion of hypertree width, a measure of the degree of cyclicity of hypergraphs that is useful for identifying and solving efficiently easy instances of hard problems...
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...