—The vision of the Semantic Web has brought about new challenges at the intersection of web research and data management. One fundamental research issue at this intersection is t...
Searching for all occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML document is an important operation in XML query processing. Recently a holistic method TwigStack [2] has been proposed. T...
Database outsourcing is an emerging data management paradigm which has the potential to transform the IT operations of corporations. In this paper we address privacy threats in da...
An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
Federated queries are regular relational queries accessing data on one or more remote relational or non-relational data sources, possibly combining them with tables stored in the ...
Stephan Ewen, Holger Kache, Volker Markl, Vijaysha...