The design and implementation of advanced personalized database applications requires a preference-driven approach. Representing preferences as strict partial orders is a good cho...
The goal of the TICK data management system is to make online publication of the fruits of research as easy as the publication of opinions on weblogs. In order to avoid the reinve...
We propose XRPC, a minimal XQuery extension that enables distributed yet efficient querying of heterogeneous XQuery data sources. XRPC enhances the existing concept of XQuery func...
Abstract--Cloud computing, the new trend for service infrastructures requires user multi-tenancy as well as minimal capital expenditure. In a cloud that services large amounts of d...
Rewriting queries using views is a powerful technique that has applications in data integration, data warehousing and query optimization. Query rewriting in relational databases i...