One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
We describe and evaluate a query minimization technique that applies to XQueries, which are nested, perform arbitrary joins, and freely mix bag and set semantics. These features c...
Data integration is one of the older research fields in the database area and has emerged shortly after database systems were first introduced into the business world. In this pa...
Abstract. The alignment of different ontologies requires the specification, representation and execution of translation rules. The rules need to integrate translations at the lexic...
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab, Simon Sch...
It is important for any data language that it enables many people to derive correct information from a databases in a simple, effective way with predictable performance. In an ana...