Containment and optimization of object-preserving conjunctive queries

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1371-1400

  Chan, Edward P F ^a   Van Der Meyden, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

OBJECT PRESERVING CONJUNCTIVE QUERIES; TERMINAL CONJUNCTIVE QUERIES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0033718407     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0097539794262446     Document Type: Article

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