It is known that the composition of schema mappings, each specified by source-to-target tgds (st-tgds), can be specified by a secondorder tgd (SO tgd). We consider the question of...
It is known that the languages definable by formulae of the logics FO2[<,S], 2[<,S], LTL[F,P,X,Y] are exactly the variety DAD. Automata for this class are not known, nor is i...
A universal model of a database D and a set Σ of integrity constraints is a database that extends D, satisfies Σ, and is most general in the sense that it contains sound and co...
The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
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