In a data warehousing process, the data preparation phase is crucial. Mastering this phase allows substantial gains in terms of time and performance when performing a multidimensio...
Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service (DAS), where an organization’s database is stored at an external s...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitio...
Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Corté...
Abstract. Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) offers a logical framework to prevent a user of a database from inadvertently gaining knowledge he is not allowed to know. By modeling t...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...