We show that the problem of whether a query is equivalent to a query of tree-width k is decidable, for the class of Unions of Conjunctive Regular Path Queries with two-way navigation (UC2RPQs). A previous result by Barceló, Romero, and Vardi [Pablo Barceló et al., 2016] has shown decidability for the case k = 1, and here we show that decidability in fact holds for any arbitrary k > 1. The algorithm is in 2ExpSpace, but for the restricted but practically relevant case where all regular expressions of the query are of the form a^* or (a_1 + ... + a_n) we show that the complexity of the problem drops to Π^p_2. We also investigate the related problem of approximating a UC2RPQ by queries of small tree-width. We exhibit an algorithm which, for any fixed number k, builds the maximal under-approximation of tree-width k of a UC2RPQ. The maximal under-approximation of tree-width k of a query q is a query q' of tree-width k which is contained in q in a maximal and unique way, that is, such that for every query q'' of tree-width k, if q'' is contained in q then q'' is also contained in q'.
@InProceedings{figueira_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.15, author = {Figueira, Diego and Morvan, R\'{e}mi}, title = {{Approximation and Semantic Tree-Width of Conjunctive Regular Path Queries}}, booktitle = {26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)}, pages = {15:1--15:19}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-270-9}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {255}, editor = {Geerts, Floris and Vandevoort, Brecht}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.15}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-177575}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.15}, annote = {Keywords: graph databases, conjunctive regular path queries, semantic optimization, tree-width, containment, approximation} }
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