III this paper we address the problem of controlling the execution of a query optimizer. We describe a control for the optimization process that is based on planning. The controll...
Even if high-level query languages are used, query formulation may cause problems. This is notably so in case of large and complex application domains. Typical examples of these k...
Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Henderik Alex Proper, T...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native XML database management systems currently bear limited p...
ConQueSt is a constraint-based querying system devised with the aim of supporting the intrinsically exploratory nature of pattern discovery. It provides users with an expressive c...
Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Claudio Lucches...
Streaming XPath evaluation algorithms must record a potentially exponential number of pattern matches when both predicates and descendant axes are present in queries, and the XML ...