Since the seventies, database theory has contributed a number of landmark results that have helped databases become a multi-billion dollar industry, and the database field a mature research area. But as the area matured, theory has had fewer opportunities to contribute to a more and more static field. In PODS 1995, a famous paper by Christos Papadimitriou analyzed the health of database theory ...

background bladder reconstruction in the pediatric population is challenging for many reasons, including perioperative complications and readmissions. objectives on a national scale, determine readmission rates at 30, 60 and 90 days after bladder reconstruction in a pediatric population over a 7-year period, evaluating the influence of hospital and patient-specific variables. patients and metho...

A user of a database management system has an intuitive idea of a transaction as a sequence of database commands that he or she submits. The user expects this sequence of commands to be executed in the order of submission, without interference from other database commands submitted by other users. Techniques for doing this while concurrently supporting multiple database users are well known for...

3 This article summarizes mathematical formalisms used to describe object and object-oriented databases. Different approaches were used to describe object databases, object database models respectively. We focus on algebraic approaches including graphs, monoid comprehensions, monads and semi-monads, and applied type theory. Especially we introduce formal categorical approach to object database ...

In this paper, we first define a logical theory representing an XML database supporting XPath as query language and XUpdate as modification language. We then extend our theory with predicates allowing us to specify the security policy protecting the database. The security policy includes rules addressing the read and write privileges. We propose axioms to derive the database view each user is p...

In this paper, we first define a logical theory representing an XML database supporting XPath as query language and XUpdate as modification language. We then extend our theory with predicates allowing us to specify the security policy protecting the database. The security policy includes rules addressing the read and write privileges. We propose axioms to derive the database view each user is p...

The present paper is intended to survey the interaction between Relational Database Theory and Coding Theory. In particular it is shown how an extremal problem for relational databases gives rise to a new type of coding problem. The former concerns minimal representation of branching dependencies that can be considered as a data mining type question. The extremal configurations involve d-distan...