Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
Large collections of documents are commonly created around a database, where a typical database schema may contain hundreds of tables and thousands of columns. We developed a syst...
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos Ordonez, Zhibo Chen...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...
XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
In the relational model it has been shown that the flat relational algebra has the same expressive power as the nested relational algebra, as far as queries over flat relations ...
Wim Le Page, Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jan P...