[Newsletter PoDM ] Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 35, September 2022

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Principles of Data Management, Newsletter 35, September 2022
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Database Theory (preliminary version)

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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
Database Theory (preliminary version)
by Marcelo Arenas, Pablo Barcelo, Leonid Libkin, Wim Martens, and Andreas Pieris
* Our book in progress on Database Theory now includes 500+ pages on 
    - The Relational Model: The Classics
    - Conjunctive Queries
    - Fast Conjunctive Query Evaluation (new preliminary chapters on tree- and hypertreewidth, the AGM bound, WCO algorithms, and Leapfrog Triejoin)
    - Expressive Languages
    - Uncertainty (new preliminary chapters on incomplete databases and certain answers)
    - Tree-Structured Data (new preliminary chapters on FO, XPath, and tree pattern queries)
    - Expressive Languages for Tree-Structured Data (new preliminary chapters on MSO, tree automata, Datalog, and schema languages)
* We have been teaching and giving tutorials from the book ourselves.
* If you find any errors, feel free to reach out to us!
* Download at https://github.com/pdm-book/community
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