Abstract: This paper proposes extensions to the Object-Role Modeling approach to support schema transformations that eliminate unneeded columns that may arise from standard relatio...
Most natural language database interfaces suffer from the translation knowledge portability problem, and are vulnerable to ill-formed questions because of their deep analysis. To a...
This paper assumes a search space of fixed-length strings, where the size of the alphabet can vary from position to position. Structural crossover is mask-based crossover, and thu...
Alden H. Wright, Michael D. Vose, Jonathan E. Rowe
We study the problem of update propagation across views in the setting where both the view and the source database are XML documents. We consider a simple class of XML views that ...
Soft constraints based on semirings are a generalization of classical constraints, where tuples of variables' values in each soft constraint are uniquely associated to element...