Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...
In this paper we describe a prototype implementation of updateable views called “SBQL Views”. The prototype follows a novel approach to view updates based on the Stack-Based Ap...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
Most software applications use a relational database for data management and storage. Interaction with such a database is often done by letting the program construct strings with ...
Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...