The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
We present a procedure for deriving the weakest precondition for a database update and an integrity constraint. We show how to simplify the weakest precondition to produce a condi...
Abstract. We examine the maintenance of data consistency in the presence of application-database interactions. Currently, a programmer must insert explicit checks to ensure that da...
Abstract In this paper we present a new rule-based approach for consistency preserving view updating in deductive databases. Based on rule transformations performed during schema d...
Global semantic integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple databases. In this paper, we take the initial steps towards representing global se...