In response to the widespread use of the XML format for document representation and message exchange, major database vendors support XML in terms of persistence, querying and inde...
Haskell’s type system with multi-parameter constructor classes and functional dependencies allows static (compile-time) computations to be expressed by logic programming on the ...
We introduce a new normal form, called essential tuple normal form (ETNF), for relations in a relational database where the constraints are given by functional dependencies and jo...
We present a method for trust scenarios with more than one trustee, where sets of trustees are ordered in a relation of relative trustworthiness. We show how a priority structure i...
We present a novel design and implementation of relational join algorithms for new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs). The most recent GPU features include support for wr...
Bingsheng He, Ke Yang, Rui Fang, Mian Lu, Naga K. ...