Most real-world database applications manage temporal data, i.e., data with associated time references that capture a temporal aspect of the data, typically either when the data i...
We propose XQGen, a stand-alone, algebra-based XPath generator to aid engineers in testing and improving the design of XML query engines. XQGen takes an XML schema sketch and user...
Objects with multiple numeric attributes can be compared within any “subspace” (subset of attributes). In applications such as computational journalism, users are interested i...
You Wu, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Chengkai Li, Jun Yang 0...
Abstract. We show that production rules and persistent queues together provide a convenient mechanism for maintaining consistency in semantically heterogeneous multidatabase enviro...
An inverse of a schema mapping M is intended to "undo" what M does, thus providing a way to perform "reverse" data exchange. In recent years, three different f...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...