Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
We define a match join of R and S with predicate to be a subset of the -join of R and S such that each tuple of R and S contributes to at most one result tuple. Match joins and t...
Ameet Kini, Srinath Shankar, Jeffrey F. Naughton, ...
There has been interest recently in skyline queries, also called Pareto queries, on relational databases. Relational query languages do not support search for "best" tupl...
Jan Chomicki, Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Dongming ...
Research over the past several decades in learning logical and probabilistic models has greatly increased the range of phenomena that machine learning can address. Recent work has ...
We rework parts of the classical relational theory when the underlying domain is a structure with some interpreted operations that can be used in queries. We identify parts of the...