Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
This article deals with consistent query answering to conjunctive queries under primary key constraints. The repairs of an inconsistent database db are obtained by selecting a max...
Semistructured data, in particular XML, has emerged as one of the primary means for information exchange and content management. The power of XML allows authors to structure a doc...
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...