Although it has been acknowledged for many years that querying and updating time-varying information using standard (i.e., non-temporal) SQL is a challenging task, the proposed te...
Temporal reasoning and temporal query languages present di cult research problems of theoretical interest and practical importance. One problem is the chasm between point-based te...
Database queries often take the form of correlated SQL queries. Correlation refers to the use of values from the outer query block to compute the inner subquery. This is a conveni...
This paper presents the participation of FEUP, from University of Porto, in the TREC 2008 Blog Track. FEUP participated in two tasks, the baseline adhoc retrieval task and the blo...
There is much current interest in publishing and viewing databases as XML documents. The general benefits of this approach follow from the popularity of XML and the tool set avai...