Incomplete Information in Relational Databases
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A graphical query language supporting recursion
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GraphLog: a visual formalism for real life recursion
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Data on the Web: from relations to semistructured data and XML
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Data integration: a theoretical perspective
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A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model
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Optimization Properties for Classes of Conjunctive Regular Path Queries
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View-Based Query Processing and Constraint Satisfaction
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Answering Regular Path Queries Using Views
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Constraint Processing
Foundations of semantic web databases
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Data exchange: semantics and query answering
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Conjunctive queries over trees
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A query language for biological networks
Bioinformatics
Fast best-effort pattern matching in large attributed graphs
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Survey of graph database models
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SoQL: A Language for Querying and Creating Data in Social Networks
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Representing, Querying and Transforming Social Networks with RDF/SPARQL
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Semantics and complexity of SPARQL
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Conjunctive query containment over trees
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Expressive languages for path queries over graph-structured data
Proceedings of the twenty-ninth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
XML with incomplete information
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Graph pattern matching: from intractable to polynomial time
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Graph homomorphism revisited for graph matching
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Theory
Relational and XML Data Exchange
Relational and XML Data Exchange
Adding regular expressions to graph reachability and pattern queries
ICDE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on Data Engineering
An abstract framework for generating maximal answers to queries
ICDT'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Database Theory
Regular path queries on graphs with data
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Theory
Definability problems for graph query languages
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Theory
Schema mappings and data exchange for graph databases
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Theory
NeMa: fast graph search with label similarity
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Proceedings of the 32nd symposium on Principles of database systems
A trichotomy for regular simple path queries on graphs
Proceedings of the 32nd symposium on Principles of database systems
Efficient data partitioning model for heterogeneous graphs in the cloud
SC '13 Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
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Graph data appears in a variety of application domains, and many uses of it, such as querying, matching, and transforming data, naturally result in incompletely specified graph data, i.e., graph patterns. While queries need to be posed against such data, techniques for querying patterns are generally lacking, and properties of such queries are not well understood. Our goal is to study the basics of querying graph patterns. We first identify key features of patterns, such as node and label variables and edges specified by regular expressions, and define a classification of patterns based on them. We then study standard graph queries on graph patterns, and give precise characterizations of both data and combined complexity for each class of patterns. If complexity is high, we do further analysis of features that lead to intractability, as well as lower complexity restrictions. We introduce a new automata model for query answering with two modes of acceptance: one captures queries returning nodes, and the other queries returning paths. We study properties of such automata, and the key computational tasks associated with them. Finally, we provide additional restrictions for tractability, and show that some intractable cases can be naturally cast as instances of constraint satisfaction problem.