Scientific data are available through an increasing number of heterogeneous, independently evolving, sources. Although the sources themselves are independently evolving, the data ...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
Abstract. Relational algebra has been a crucial foundation for relational database systems, and has played a large role in enabling their success. A corresponding XML algebra for X...
We study two classes of view update problems in relational databases. We are given a source database S, a monotone query Q, and the view Q(S) generated by the query. The first pro...
With the rapid growth of biomedical research databases, opportunities for scientific inquiry have expanded quickly and led to a demand for computational methods that can extract b...
Mohammed I. Rafiq, Martin J. O'Connor, Amar K. Das
Transparent persistence promises to integrate programming languages and databases by allowing procedural programs to access persistent data with the same ease as non-persistent da...