Query folding is a technique for determining how a query may be answered using a given set of resources, which may include materialized views, cached results of previous queries, ...
The problem of nding the best answers to a query quickly, rather than nding all answers, is of increasing importance as relational databases are applied in multimedia and decision...
Abstract: We propose a framework for the specification of extensible database systems. A particular goal is to implement a software component for parsing and rule-based optimizatio...
Most declarative SQL-like query languagesfor object-oriented database systems (OOSQL) are orthogonal languages allowing for arbitrary nesting of expressions in the select-, from-,...
Hennie J. Steenhagen, Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. B...
Consistent query answering is the term commonly used for the problem of answering queries on databases that violate certain integrity constraints. We address this problem for univ...