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2006
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Structural characterizations of the semantics of XPath as navigation tool on a document
Given a document D in the form of an unordered labeled tree, we study the expressibility on D of various fragments of XPath, the core navigational language on XML documents. We gi...
Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht, Georg...
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2006
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The containment problem for REAL conjunctive queries with inequalities
Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries ha...
T. S. Jayram, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Erik Vee
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2006
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Efficiently ordering subgoals with access constraints
d Abstract] Guizhen Yang Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Michael Kifer Dept. of Computer Science Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 1...
Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer, Vinay K. Chaudhri
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2007
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Quasi-inverses of schema mappings
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. Two operators on schema mappings, namely the composition operator and th...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
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2007
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Monadic datalog over finite structures with bounded treewidth
Bounded treewidth and Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic have proved to be key concepts in establishing fixed-parameter tractability results. Indeed, by Courcelle's Theorem we ...
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Fang Wei