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CSL
2009
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Tree-Width for First Order Formulae
We introduce tree-width for first order formulae , fotw(). We show that computing fotw is fixed-parameter tractable with parameter fotw. Moreover, we show that on classes of formul...
Isolde Adler, Mark Weyer
ICDT
2007
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Combining Incompleteness and Ranking in Tree Queries
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...
Benny Kimelfeld, Yehoshua Sagiv
LICS
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Tree Extension Algebras: Logics, Automata, and Query Languages
We study relations on trees defined by first-order constraints over a vocabulary that includes the tree extension relation Ì Ì ¼, holding if and only if every branch of Ì ex...
Michael Benedikt, Leonid Libkin
PODS
2010
ACM
150views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Understanding queries in a search database system
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
ESWS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Ranking Approximate Answers to Semantic Web Queries
We consider the problem of a user querying semistructured data such as RDF without knowing its structure. In these circumstances, it is helpful if the querying system can perform a...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter ...