The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
Background: We present a biological data warehouse called Atlas that locally stores and integrates biological sequences, molecular interactions, homology information, functional a...
Sohrab P. Shah, Yong Huang, Tao Xu, Macaire M. S. ...
This paper revisits the analysis of annotation propagation from source databases to views defined in terms of conjunctive (SPJ) queries. Given a source database D, an SPJ query Q,...
Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...