MARS Documentation

MARS Manual

In order to write your own MARS scripts, take a look at the tests in the archive of the sources and at the file describing the commands.

One easy way to start is to read this brief introduction which will give you an overview of what the scripts can express.

Research papers

• XML Queries and Constraints, Containment and Reformulation. Alin Deutsch, Val Tannen. In Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 336, Issue 1, Pages Pages 57-87 (25 May 2005), Database Theory
• MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage. Alin Deutsch, Val Tannen. In VLDB 2003.
• Reformulation of XML Queries and Constraints. Alin Deutsch, Val Tannen In ICDT 2003.
• A Chase Too Far? Lucian Popa, Alin Deutsch, Arnaud Sahuguet, Val Tannen. In SIGMOD 2000
• Physical Data Independence, Constraints, and Optimization with Universal Plans. Alin Deutsch, Lucian Popa, Val Tannen. In VLDB 1999

Related research papers

• Data integration: A theoretical perspective. M. Lenzerini. In PODS 2002
• Querying XML views of relational data. J. Shanmugasundaram, J. Kiernan, E. Shekita, C. Fan, and J. Funderburk. In VLDB 2001
• Logic-based techniques in data integration. Alon Halevy. In Logic Based Artificial Intelligence 2000.
• Query Containment for Data Integration Systems. Todd Millstein , Alon Y. Levy , Marc Friedman. In PODS 2000

Presentations

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