XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
The footwear industry's need for an automatic containment algorithm is becoming increasingly important within the manufacturing process. Irregular containers, such as hides, ...
Computer worms -- malicious, self-propagating programs -- represent a significant threat to large networks. One possible defense, containment, seeks to limit a worm's spread ...
Access limitations may occur when querying data sources over the web or heterogeneous data sources presented as relational tables: this happens, for instance, in Data Exchange and ...
Abstract. We are interested in the theoretical foundations of the optimization of conjunctive regular path queries (CRPQs). The basic problem here is deciding query containment bot...
We investigate a higher-order query language that embeds operators of the positive relational algebra within the simply-typed λ-calculus. Our language allows one to succinctly de...
Abstract. The complexity of containment and satisfiability of conjunctive queries over finite, unranked, labeled trees is studied with respect to the axes Child, NextSibling, the...
Studies of worm outbreaks have found that the speed of worm propagation makes manual intervention ineffective. Consequently, many automated containment mechanisms have been propos...
Abstract. We consider the problem of query containment for conjunctive queries with safe negation property. A necessary and sufficient condition for two queries to be in containmen...