: Emerging interaction paradigms, such as service-oriented computing, and new technological challenges, such as exogenous component coordination, suggest new roles and application ...
Paula R. Ribeiro, Marco Antonio Barbosa, Luí...
We present the first complete translation of XPath into an algebra, paving the way for a comprehensive, state-of-theart XPath (and later on, XQuery) compiler based on algebraic op...
Matthias Brantner, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kan...
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...
We introduce a new abstract model of database query processing, finite cursor machines, that incorporates certain data streaming aspects. The model describes quite faithfully what...
Martin Grohe, Yuri Gurevich, Dirk Leinders, Nicole...
This paper introduces U-relations, a succinct and purely relational representation system for uncertain databases. U-relations support attribute-level uncertainty using vertical pa...
Lyublena Antova, Thomas Jansen, Christoph Koch, Da...