We study containment and equivalence of (unions of) conjunctive queries on relations annotated with elements of a commutative semiring. Such relations and the semantics of positiv...
Wireless sensor networks are proving to be useful in a variety of settings. A core challenge in these networks is to minimize energy consumption. Prior database research has propo...
David Chu, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hellerstein, ...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
We present an annotation management system for relational databases. In this system, every piece of data in a relation is assumed to have zero or more annotations associated with ...
Deepavali Bhagwat, Laura Chiticariu, Wang Chiew Ta...
We study two classes of view update problems in relational databases. We are given a source database S, a monotone query Q, and the view Q(S) generated by the query. The first pro...