The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the basics of the theory of RDF databases. We provide a formal definition of RDF that includes the features that distinguish this m...
In this paper, we study a class of optimal path problems with the following phenomenon: The space complexity of the algorithms for reporting the lengths of single-source optimal pa...
Danny Z. Chen, Ovidiu Daescu, Xiaobo Hu, Jinhui Xu
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
We examine the problem of producing the optimal evaluation order for queries containing joins, selections, and maps. Specifically, we look at the case where common subexpressions i...