We consider the complexity of join problems, focusing on equijoins, spatial-overlap joins, and set-containment joins. We use a graph pebbling model to characterize these joins com...
Jin-yi Cai, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Raghav Ka...
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
A query against a database behind a site like Napster may search, e.g., for all users who have downloaded more jazz titles than pop music titles. In order to express such queries,...
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
k-anonymization is an important privacy protection mechanism in data publishing. While there has been a great deal of work in recent years, almost all considered a single static r...
Benjamin C. M. Fung, Ke Wang, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Jia...