Relative expressive power of navigational querying on graphs

G.H.L. Fletcher, M. Gyssens, D. Leinders, D. Surinx, J. Van den Bussche, D. Van Gucht, S. Vansummeren, Y. Wu

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An extended abstract announcing the results of this paper was presented at the 14th International Conference on Database Theory, Uppsala, Sweden, March 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1938551.1938578 - - - - - Motivated by both established and new applications, we study navigational query languages for graphs (binary relations). The simplest language has only the two operators union and composition, together with the identity relation. We make more powerful languages by adding any of the following operators: intersection; set difference; projection; coprojection; converse; and the diversity relation. All these operators map binary relations to binary relations. We compare the expressive power of all resulting languages. We do this not only for general path queries (queries where the result may be any binary relation) but also for boolean or yes/no queries (expressed by the nonemptiness of an expression). For both cases, we present the complete Hasse diagram of relative expressiveness. In particular the Hasse diagram for boolean queries contains some nontrivial separations and a few surprising collapses.
Originele taal-2Engels
Uitgeverijs.n.
Aantal pagina's29
StatusGepubliceerd - 2014

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NaamarXiv
Volume1401.8201 [cs.DB]

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