Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System

Summary: Separates data, site structure, and presentation in a web-site management system. Declarative site-definition queries yield a site graph over a semi-structured labeled-directed graph model, with lessons on when declarative structure helps and the benefits of semi-structured data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3094
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00011238375
Overall Rank: 1,302 | 91.07%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276341

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Authors

1. Mary Fernández (AT&T)
2. Daniela Florescu (INRIA)
3. Jaewoo Kang (Savera Systems)
4. Alon Levy (University of Washington)
5. Dan Suciu (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fernandez_sigmod98,
        title = {{Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System}},
        author = {Fernández, Mary and Florescu, Daniela and Kang, Jaewoo and Levy, Alon and Suciu, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276341},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276341},
        year = {1998}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
22	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00056204792
318	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021380325
470	Query Optimization for XML	1999	VLDB	0.00017965707
686	Query Containment for Conjunctive Queries With Regular Expressions	1998	PODS	0.00014948634
1,290	DTD Inference for Views of XML Data	2000	PODS	0.00011312135
1,912	Querying Data Provenance	2010	SIGMOD	9.4946756e-05
2,066	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.2348082e-05
2,261	Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract)	1999	PODS	8.846133e-05
2,557	WebView Materialization	2000	SIGMOD	8.4161033e-05
3,937	Data-Driven One-to-One Web Site Generation for Data-Intensive Applications	1999	VLDB	7.0081832e-05
4,107	Processing Queries on Tree-Structured Data Efficiently	2006	PODS	6.8973582e-05
4,178	A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML	2001	PODS	6.849218e-05
4,287	Optimization of Run-time Management of Data Intensive Web Sites	1999	VLDB	6.7803604e-05
4,350	SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites	2009	CIDR	6.7499856e-05
4,495	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.6623097e-05
6,278	Constraint Satisfaction and Database Theory: a Tutorial	2000	PODS	5.9287393e-05
12,733	Model-driven Design of Service-enabled Web Applications	2005	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,756	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
124	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030950263
171	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00027363924
381	Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems	1996	SIGMOD	0.00019549294
515	Answering Recursive Queries Using Views	1997	PODS	0.00017177428
645	Your Mediators Need Data Conversion!	1998	SIGMOD	0.00015338713
1,233	Semistructured Data	1997	PODS	0.00011562468
1,609	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00010225236
2,727	To Weave the Web	1997	VLDB	8.200085e-05

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