The pebble tree automaton and the pebble tree transducer are enhanced by additionally allowing an unbounded number of `invisible' pebbles (as opposed to the usual `visible...
Joost Engelfriet, Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Bart Samw...
In a recent paper, Martens et al. introduced a specification mechanism for XML tree languages, based on rules of the form r s, where r, s are regular expressions. Sets of such ru...
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
In this paper we study the problem of mining all frequent queries in a given database table, a problem known to be intractable even for conjunctive queries. We restrict our attent...
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...