An answer to a query has a well-defined lineage expression (alternatively called how-provenance) that explains how the answer was derived. Recent work has also shown how to comput...
Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Katherine ...
A surprising query result is often an indication of errors in the query or the underlying data. Recent work suggests using causal reasoning to find explanations for the surprisin...
Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Suman Nath...
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
The cost of reachability query computation using traditional algorithms such as depth first search or transitive closure has been found to be prohibitive and unacceptable in mass...