Labeling schemes lie at the core of query processing for many XML database management systems. Designing labeling schemes for dynamic XML documents is an important problem that ha...
We investigate the question of whether a query can be answered using a set V of views. We first define the problem in information-theoretic terms: we say that V determines if V pr...
The Semantic Web is based on the idea of adding more machine-readable semantics to web information via annotations written in a language called the Resource Description Framework ...
Motivated by the need for more flexible OLAP systems, this paper presents work on logical integration of external data in OLAP databases, carried out in cooperation between the D...
We introduce a rich language of descriptions for semistructured tree-like data, and we explain how such descriptions relate to the data they describe. Various query languages and ...