Variables are the distinguishing new feature of XPath 2.0 which permits to select n-tuples of nodes in trees. It is known that the Core of XPath 2.0 captures n-ary first-order (FO...
Emmanuel Filiot, Joachim Niehren, Jean-Marc Talbot...
PIVOT and UNPIVOT, two operators on tabular data that exchange rows and columns, enable data transformations useful in data modeling, data analysis, and data presentation. They ca...
Abstract-- In sensor environments and moving robot applications, the position of an object is often known imprecisely because of measurement error and/or movement of the object. In...
We show that, although conjunctive queries over OWL 2 QL ontologies are reducible to database queries, no algorithm can construct such a reduction in polynomial time without changi...
Stanislav Kikot, Roman Kontchakov, Michael Zakhary...
Many web queries seek information about named entities (such as products or people). Web search engines federate such entity-oriented queries to relevant structured databases; the...