Due to the ubiquity and popularity of XML, users often are in the following situation: they want to query XML documents which contain potentially interesting information but they ...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Martin L. Kersten, Menzo Wi...
The class of unions of conjunctive queries (UCQ) has been shown to be particularly well-behaved for data exchange; its certain answers can be computed in polynomial time (in terms...
This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
We propose a new distributed, fault-tolerant Peer-to-Peer index structure for resource discovery applications called the P-tree. P-trees efficiently support range queries in addit...
Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Johannes Gehrke,...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. By processing a text database with information extraction systems, we can define a variety of structured "relati...