When storing data in heterogeneous databases, one of the top-down design issues concerns the usage of multiple query languages. A common language enables querying of database schem...
As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and st...
In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for “scaling” up or down the i...
This paper describes the Query Rewrite facility of the Starburst extensible database system, a novel phase of query optimization. We present a suite of rewrite rules used in Starb...
Hamid Pirahesh, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Waqar Hasan