The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
We study the complexity of the problem of answering queries using materialized views. This problem has attracted a lot of attention recently because of its relevance in data integ...
The ROL system is a novel deductive object-oriented database system that has been implemented at the University of Regina. It provides a uniform rule-based declarative language fo...
The paper introduces a model of the Web as an in nite, semistructured set of objects. We reconsider the classical notions of genericity and computability of queries in this new con...
XML-based databases have become a major area of in database research. Abstractly speaking they can be considered as a resurrection of complexvalue databases using constructors for...
Markus Kirchberg, Faizal Riaz-ud-Din, Klaus-Dieter...