Abstract. This paper presents XPeer, a data sharing system for massively distributed XML data. XPeer allows users to publish and query heterogeneous information without any signiï¬...
Giovanni Conforti, Giorgio Ghelli, Paolo Manghi, C...
A Datalog program can be translated into a system of fixpoint equations of relational algebra; this paper studies how such a system can be solved and optimized for a particular qu...
Query suggestion is well-known to enhance the user's search for relevant documents. In this work, we propose a novel technique that emulates a human skill when searching or e...
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos Ordonez, Zhibo Chen...
We report on the second annual ACM SIGMOD programming contest, which consisted in building an efficient distributed query engine on top of an in-memory index. This article is co-a...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...