Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries
Summary: Algorithm to express a regular expression E via given regex views, returning an exact equivalent when possible or otherwise the maximal view-expressible sublanguage of E. Proves essentially optimal complexity bounds and applies them to view-based rewriting of regular path queries in semi-structured data. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Diego Calvanese (Sapienza University)
- 2. Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University)
- 3. Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University)
- 4. Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{calvanese_pods99,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '99},
title = {{Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/303976.303996},
doi = {10.1145/303976.303996},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Calvanese, Diego and De Giacomo, Giuseppe and Lenzerini, Maurizio and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
year = {1999}
}
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