Global semantic integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple databases. In this paper, we take the initial steps towards representing global se...
Maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views inside or outside the database, is a novel, feasible and efficient approach to accelerate XML query processing. However, th...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Na Ta, Yong Zhang, Lizh...
This paper addresses the problem of de ning views that span several objectbases. Views are expressed in terms of an object algebra. We are interested in the degrees of coupling an...
We study two classes of view update problems in relational databases. We are given a source database S, a monotone query Q, and the view Q(S) generated by the query. The first pro...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...