Even if high-level query languages are used, query formulation may cause problems. This is notably so in case of large and complex application domains. Typical examples of these ki...
Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Henderik Alex Proper, T...
Our work is motivated by the problem of ranking hyperlinked documents for a given query. Given an arbitrary directed graph with edge and node labels, we present a new flow-based ...
Informative labeling schemes consist in labeling the nodes of graphs so that queries regarding any two nodes (e.g., are the two nodes adjacent?) can be answered by inspecting mere...
A special class of oracle circuits with tree-vector form is introduced. It is shown that they can be evaluated in deterministic polynomial-time with a polylog number of adaptive qu...
In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...