Ph.D
Group : Databases

XQUERY updates optimisation

Starts on 01/11/2008
Advisor : BIDOIT, Nicole
[Dario COLAZZO]

Funding : ETR-BGF
Affiliation : Université Paris-Saclay
Laboratory : LRI BD

Defended on 21/09/2012, committee :

Research activities :

Abstract :
With the widespread diffusion of XML as a format for representing data generated and exchanged over the Web, main query and update engines have been designed and implemented in the last decade. A kind of engines that are playing a crucial role in many applications are « main-memory » systems, which distinguish for the fact that they are easy to manage and to integrate in a programming environment. On the other hand, main-memory systems have scalability issues, as they load the entire document in main-memory before processing.

This Thesis presents an XML partitioning technique that allows main-memory engines to process a class of XQuery expressions (queries and updates), that we dub « iterative », on arbitrarily large input documents. We provide a static analysis technique to recognize these expressions. The static analysis is based on paths extracted from the expression and does not need additional schema information. We provide algorithms using path information for partitioning the input documents, so that the query or update can be separately evaluated on each part in order to compute the final result. These algorithms admit a streaming implementation, whose effectiveness is experimentally validated.

Besides enabling scalability, our approach is also characterized by the fact that it is easily implementable into a MapReduce framework, thus enabling parallel query/update evaluation on the partitioned data.

CAUSAL LEARNING FOR DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORT


CAUSAL UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION UNDER PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND LOW DATA REGIMES


MICRO VISUALIZATIONS: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF VISUALIZATIONS FOR SMALL DISPLAY SPACES
The topic of this habilitation is the study of very small data visualizations, micro visualizations, in display contexts that can only dedicate minimal rendering space for data representations. For several years, together with my collaborators, I have been studying human perception, interaction, and analysis with micro visualizations in multiple contexts. In this document I bring together three of my research streams related to micro visualizations: data glyphs, where my joint research focused on studying the perception of small-multiple micro visualizations, word-scale visualizations, where my joint research focused on small visualizations embedded in text-documents, and small mobile data visualizations for smartwatches or fitness trackers. I consider these types of small visualizations together under the umbrella term ``micro visualizations.'' Micro visualizations are useful in multiple visualization contexts and I have been working towards a better understanding of the complexities involved in designing and using micro visualizations. Here, I define the term micro visualization, summarize my own and other past research and design guidelines and outline several design spaces for different types of micro visualizations based on some of the work I was involved in since my PhD.