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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Efficient reasoning about data trees via integer linear programming
<11> Originality: The paper bridged two main approaches to the static analysis of XML documents with data values: the abstract ones (that produce general results but of very high complexity) and concrete ones (that concentrate on specific tasks, and are hard to extend). It proposed a simple formalism that subsumes many concrete reasoning tasks and captures the essence of many abstract formalisms. Unlike previous approaches, this formalism is easy to implement, and experimental results confirmed the feasibility of our approach.
Significance: The conference version won the Best Paper Award at ICDT 2011.
Rigour: Complete proofs of correctness of all the algorithms are provided.