The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessing...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Some tasks in a dataspace (a loose collection of heterogeneous data sources) require integration of fine-grained data from diverse sources. This work is often done by end users kn...
David W. Archer, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maier
The need to integrate several versions of a program into a common one arises frequently, but it is a tedious and time consuming task to merge programs by hand. The program-integrat...