Abstract. Checking the consistency of query conditions is an old problem, and there are already many proposed solutions. Since the problem is in general undecidable, there is not a...
Abstract. A Conceptual Information System consists of a database together with conceptual hierarchies. The management system TOSCANA visualizes arbitrary combinations of conceptual...
—The danger of production or backup data becoming corrupted is a problem that database administrators dread. This position paper aims to bring this problem to the attention of th...
Many biological information systems rely on relational database management systems (RDBMS) to manage high-throughput biological data. While keeping these data well archived, organ...
The process of managing inconsistency is a fundamental activity that permeates a large part of the systems development process. Failure to identify inconsistencies may lead to maj...