In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
In XML data exchange, a schema mapping specifies rules for restructuring a source document under the target schema, and queries over the target document must be answered in a way...
Shunichi Amano, Claire David, Leonid Libkin, Filip...
In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
We study new hierarchical indexing approach to process XPATH queries. Here, a hierarchical index consists of index entries that are pairs of queries and their (full/partial) answer...
Users without knowledge of schemas or structured query languages have difficulties in accessing information stored in databases. Commercial and research efforts have focused on key...