A large fraction of an XML document typically consists of text data. The XPath query language allows text search via the equal, contains, and starts-with predicates. Such predicate...
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisco Claude, Sebastian Manet...
Database query optimizers rely on data statistics in selecting query execution plans. Similar query optimization techniques are desirable for deductive databases and, to make this...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
—Many companies now routinely run massive data analysis jobs – expressed in some scripting language – on large clusters of low-end servers. Many analysis scripts are complex ...
In Deep Web data integration, some Web database interfaces express exclusive predicates of the form Qe = Pi(Pi ∈ P1, P2, . . . , Pm), which permits only one predicate to be selec...