Earliest query answering for deterministic nested word automata

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Gauwin;Joachim Niehren;Sophie Tison

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Lille and University of Lille 1 and INRIA & LIFL, CNRS, UMR;INRIA, Lille and INRIA & LIFL, CNRS, UMR;University of Lille 1 and INRIA & LIFL, CNRS, UMR

  • Venue:
  • FCT'09 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Fundamentals of computation theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Earliest query answering (EQA) is an objective of streaming algorithms for XML query answering, that aim for close to optimal memory management. In this paper, we show that EQA is infeasible even for a small fragment of XPath unless P=NP. We then present an EQA algorithm for queries and schemas defined by deterministic nested word automata (dnwas) and distinguish a large class of dnwas for which streaming query answering is feasible in polynomial space and time.