Abstract. We study containment of conjunctive queries that are evaluated over databases that may contain tuples with null values. We assume the semantics of SQL for single block qu...
Abstract. The complexity of containment and satisfiability of conjunctive queries over finite, unranked, labeled trees is studied with respect to the axes Child, NextSibling, the...
Abstract. Term-partitioned indexes are generally inefficient for the evaluation of conjunctive queries, as they require the communication of long posting lists. On the other side, ...
Abstract. We consider the problem of query containment for conjunctive queries with safe negation property. A necessary and sufficient condition for two queries to be in containmen...
Data exchange is the problem of transforming data structured under a schema (called source) into data structured under a different schema (called target). The emphasis of data exc...
In this paper we study the problem of mining all frequent queries in a given database table, a problem known to be intractable even for conjunctive queries. We restrict our attent...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
The problem of finding contained rewritings of queries using views is of great importance in mediated data integration systems. In this paper, we first present a general approach f...