XKeyword provides efficient keyword proximity queries on large XML graph databases. A query is simply a list of keywords and does not require any schema or query language knowledg...
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
A join index hierarchy method is proposed to handle the "goto's on disk" problem in objectoriented query processing. The method constructs a hierarchy of join indic...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
We propose an approach for the selective enforcement of access control restrictions in, possibly distributed, large data collections based on two basic concepts: i) flexible autho...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...