The problem of nding the best answers to a query quickly, rather than nding all answers, is of increasing importance as relational databases are applied in multimedia and decision...
Logical constraints, (e.g., 'phone numbers in toronto can have prefixes 416, 647, 905 only'), are ubiquitous in relational databases. Traditional integrity constraints, ...
Amit Chandel, Nick Koudas, Ken Q. Pu, Divesh Sriva...
Data about everything is readily available on the web—but often only accessible through elaborate user interactions. For automated decision support, extracting that data is esse...
Andrew Jon Sellers, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Gio...
View materialization is a central issue in logical design of data warehouses since it is one of the most powerful techniques to improve the response to the workload. Most approach...
Consider an XML view defined over a relational database, and a user query specified over this view. This user XML query is typically processed using the following steps: (a) our t...
Murali Mani, Song Wang, Daniel J. Dougherty, Elke ...