Recent interests on XML, Semantic Web, and Web ontology, among other topics, have sparked a renewed interest on graph-structured databases. A fundamental query on graphs is the re...
We consider the problems of computing aggregation queries in temporal databases, and of maintaining materialized temporal aggregate views efficiently. The latter problem is partic...
The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
When a database is defined as views over autonomous sources, inconsistencies with respect to global integrity constraints are to be expected. This paper investigates the possibili...
Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...