For several reasons a database may not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints (ICs), but most likely most of the information in it is still consistent with those ICs; and cou...
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
This paper addresses the problem of explaining missing answers in queries that include selection, projection, join, union, aggregation and grouping (SPJUA). Explaining missing ans...
In this paper, a dynamic approach to deductive query evaluation is presented which combines the e ects of di erent SIP strategies used for the magic set rewriting technique. Given...
We consider theoretical properties of the template-guided recombination operation. In particular, we consider the decidability of whether two sets of templates are equivalent, that...