19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'03)
PXML: A Probabilistic Semistructured Data Model and Algebra
Bangalore, India
March 05-March 08
ISBN: 0-7803-7665-X
Despite the recent proliferation of work on semistructured data models, there has been little work to date on supporting uncertainty in these models. In this paper, we propose a model for probabilitic semistructured data (PSD). The advantage of our approach is that it supports a flexible representation that allows the specification of a wide class of distributions over semistructured instances. We provide two semantics for the model and show that the semantics are probabilistically coherent. Next, we develop an extension of the relational algebra to handle probabilistic semistructured data and describe efficient algorithms for answering queries that use this algebra. Finally, we present experimental results showing the efficiency of our algorithms.
Citation:
Edward Hung, Lise Getoor, V. S. Subrahmanian, "PXML: A Probabilistic Semistructured Data Model and Algebra," icde, pp.467, 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'03), 2003