The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
The prevalent use of XML highlights the need for a generic, flexible access-control mechanism for XML documents that supports efficient and secure query access, without revealing ...
In order to publish a nested XML document from flat relational data, multiple SQL queries are often needed. The efficiency of publishing relies on how fast these queries can be ev...
Consider a universe of tokens, each of which is associated with a weight, and a database consisting of strings that can be represented as subsets of these tokens. Given a query st...
We consider the class of database programs and address the problem of minimizing the cost of their exchanges with the database server. This cost partly consists of query execution...